Despite the fact that there are more than twenty thousand biomedical journals in the world, research into the work of editors and publication process in biomedical and health care journals is rare. In December 2012, the Esteve Foundation, a non-profit scientific institution that fosters progress in pharmacotherapy by means of scientific communication and discussion organized a discussion group ...

INTRODUCTION There seems to be no dedicated journals available for publication of editorial research in the biomedical sciences; that is research into editorial or publication process issues involving the scientific approach to writing, reviewing, editing and publishing. It is unknown where papers concerning these issues are typically published. We therefore set out to study the distribution of...

In the 12 years since it was first published, the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" (the Vancouver style), developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, has been widely accepted by both authors and editors; more than 400 journals have stated that they will consider manuscripts that conform to its requirements. This is the fourth editi...

Future researchers may want to study in greater depth the positions of individuals writing as librarians in health sciences journals. It may also be interesting to determine what motivates health sciences librarians to write articles for biomedical journals. Health sciences librarians' motivation (or lack of motivation) in doing research and publishing their findings should also be further exam...

Bibliographical data such as title, author, affiliation, and abstract are crucial for indexing biomedical journal articles. The Medical Article Records System (MARS) has been developed at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to automate bibliographical data extraction for MEDLINE®, the NLM’s premier database of citations to the biomedical literature. The automatic extraction of bibliographic ...

Open access within the scientific community depends on the scientific context and the practices of the field. In the biomedical domain, the communication of research results is characterised by the importance of the peer reviewing process, the existence of a hierarchy among journals and the transfer of copyright to the editor. Biomedical publishing has become a lucrative market and the growth o...

This bibliometric study describes the characteristics of letters to the editor published between 2006-2013 in biomedical journals indexed in SciELO-Peru.253 letters (10.3% of total publications) were collected. Most letters (139) were in the Peruvian Journal of Experimental Medicine and Public Health, with marked increase throughout those years. 25% of letters submitted included medical student...

The timeliness of publication in five Indian, clinical, biomedical journals (Indian Pediatrics, The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, Neurology India, The Indian Journal of Medical Research and Journal of Postgraduate Medicine) from January 2007 to December 2008 was compared. The time from manuscript submission to publication for the journals studied (median: 358.3 days; range: 202.9-421.3 days) wa...

Tens of thousands of biomedical journals exist, and the deluge of new articles in the biomedical sciences is leading to information overload. Hence, there is much interest in text mining, the use of computational tools to enhance the human ability to parse and understand complex text.

Health research in the Syrian Arab Republic faces many difficulties, including limited funds, infrastructure and means of dissemination. In a search of Medline and Embase databases in March 2006 we extracted data on 386 biomedical papers originating from the Syrian Arab Republic. Embase had the superior coverage. A total of 64% were published in journals from Europe, 22% from North American jou...