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background: letters to the editor provide an opportunity for readers to state their views about published articles. research on this issue has been mainly on western journals and there is no study on the iranian journals. the present study aimed to investigate this subject in iranian biomedical journals. materials and method: this was a bibliometric study. the databases of iran medex, medlib, a...

since the late 1990s, different web-based submission and peer review systems have emerged, and significant numbers of journals have shifted from their old paper-based systems to the web-based ones. exploring the main features of these online systems might lead to better understand this flow. this study was performed to examine the features and capabilities of online submissions and peer review ...

Background. Open access (OA) journals allows access to research papers free of charge to the reader. Traditionally, biomedical researchers use databases like MEDLINE and EMBASE to discover new advances. However, biomedical OA journals might not fulfill such databases' criteria, hindering dissemination. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a database exclusively listing OA journals. T...

INTRODUCTION The aim of our study was to investigate the extent to which Instructions to authors of the Croatian open access (OA) journals are addressing ethical issues. Do biomedical journals differ from the journals from other disciplines in that respect? Our hypothesis was that biomedical journals maintain much higher publication ethics standards. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study looked at...