Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to bio-medical journals were first published in 1978 [1] and have since been adopted by most major periodicals. This has not been the case in occupational medicine, however, and there are currently no standard guidelines being followed for manuscripts in our field. A brief look at the editorial policies of eight major journals from four global regi...

AIM To analyze scientometrically the dynamic science internationalization on colorectal tumour markers as reflected in five information portals and to outline the significant journals, scientists and institutions. METHODS A retrospective problem-oriented search was performed in Web of Science Core Collection (WoS), MEDLINE, BIOSIS Citation Index (BIOSIS) and Scopus for 1986-2015 as well as in...

If you are reading this issue of Cell in print, you may have already noticed in flipping through to get to this editorial a dramatic change on our masthead page. If you are accessing the issue via the new Cell website, I encourage you to click on the Editorial Board and Contacts link to check it out. With the new year, we have revised and greatly expanded the Cell editorial board. We would like...

A recent editorial (Aldrich et al. The Ecstasy and Agony of Assay Interference Compounds . J. Chem. Inf. MODEL 2017 , 57 , 387 - 390 ) is examined critically. When assessing assay hits from screening, it is important to draw a distinction between false positives, that have no effect on target function, and compounds that affect target function through an undesirable mechanism of action. Obser...

Many universities have adopted Administrative Withdrawal Policies that allow administrators to remove students from classes without the student’s permission. These policies potentially protect but also provide a means of artificially improving key funding metrics. This study uses Agency Theory examine over 1,100 Division I, II, and III U.S. compares usage state federal funding. Results show II ...

PURPOSE To investigate the dynamics of indexing the Journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology (JBUON) in important biomedical databases, the effects on the quantity and type of published articles, and also the countries of the (co)authors of these papers. METHODS The process of the JBUON indexing started with EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, followed in 2006 (PUBMED/MEDLINE) and continued every second y...

The HIV epidemic has been continuously growing among women, and in some parts of the world, HIV-infected women outnumber men. Women's greater vulnerability to HIV, both biologically and socially, influences their health risk and health outcome. This disparity between sexes has been established for other diseases, for example, autoimmune diseases, malignancies and cardiovascular diseases. Differ...

We carried out a literature search on the Web for clinical studies dealing with chemotherapy drugs or associations with biotherapies (i.e. antibodies, small molecules, cytokines) published in 2005 on peer-reviewed international journals in order to describe their content. We used both PubMed and Science Citation Index to search the terms ‘chemotherapy’ + either ‘phase II (or 2)’ or ‘phase III (...

First, the good news: the Indian Academy of Neuroscience has taken it upon itself to develop strategies to reach out to teachers, students and the general public, if the proceedings of the annual conference of the last few years are an indicator. this is further testified by the thrust given to this area of activities in the editorial policy of its flagship journal, the Annals of Neurosciences....