BACKGROUND The impact factors of biomedical journals tend to rise over time. We sought to assess the trend in the impact factor, during the past decade, of journals published on behalf of United States (US) and European scientific societies, in four select biomedical subject categories (Biology, Cell Biology, Critical Care Medicine, and Infectious Diseases). METHODS We identified all journals...

The scientific community faces numerous challenges in achieving gender equality among its participants. One method of highlighting the contributions made by female scientists is through their selection as featured speakers in symposia held at the conferences of professional societies. Because they are specially invited, symposia speakers obtain a prestigious platform from which to display their...

AIM To develop guidelines for the infrastructure of training institutes and teaching departments for medical specialist training in radiotherapy within Europe. MATERIAL AND METHODS Guidelines for teaching departments were developed under consideration of the updated European Core Curriculum for Radiotherapists (Radiation Oncologists) by an expert panel jointly appointed by the European Union ...

Dear editor Are medical students able to perform multicenter studies? This question goes far beyond what the scientific environment could imagine even a few years ago. Medical students, particularly in Latin America, have progressively incremented their research productivity[1],[2]. This is due to the strategies developed —such as the creation of medical students' scientific societies— in respo...

the American Association for laboratory Animal Science (AAlAS, http://www.AAlAS.org) has a long and progressive history in the evolution of the field of biomedical research (McPearson and Mattingly, 2000). From its beginnings in the mid-twentieth century when five veterinarians met in Chicago to the current conferences of 5000 attendees, the association has been pivotal in the advancement of re...

The subscription rates as from 1 January 2016 are given in Table 1. There will be a 5% discount on the prices of the individual sections for subscribers taking out any of the combined subscriptions. The reduced-rate (personal) subscriptions are ordinarily only available to members of recognized scientific societies, and applications must be accompanied by a written undertaking that the journal ...

Medical scientific societies have the core mission of producing, pooling and disseminating solid and updated scientific information. We report the successful experience of the partnership of four national Medical Scientific Societies active in Italy in producing scientific advice on vaccines and vaccination. In particular, i) the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health...

T HE registration of scientists, as with other inventories of our scientific potential, must be accomplished by methods consistent with the protection of the traditional freedoms fundamental to the continued advancement of science. In keeping with this philosophy , the professional scientific societies, representing scientists, and the National Science Foundation, representing Government, have ...

An essential function of both the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB) and the Society for Neuronal Regulation (SNR) is the systematic evaluation of psychophysiological interventions that have been developed for the treatment of medical and psychiatric disorders. In order to address scientific concerns regarding the efficacy of specific clinical applications of biofee...