The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has developed an automated system, named Medical Article Records System (MARS), to process bibliographic data (title, authors, affiliation, abstract, etc.) in biomedical journal articles for its MEDLINE database. This paper describes a labeling module in the MARS, which automatically extract the bibliographic data in biomedical journal articles. The label...

BACKGROUND The quality of biomedical reporting is guided by statements of several organizations. Although not all journals adhere to these guidelines, those that do demonstrate "editorial leadership" in their author community. To investigate a possible relationship between editorial leadership and journal quality, research journals from two European countries, one Anglophone and one non-Angloph...