The journal Impact Factor and citation counts are misconstrued and misused as measures of scientific quality. Articles must be read in order to judge their quality. We have introduced a system, which may be easily replicated, to identify the best articles published in a journal.

This special issue of the Journal of Radiology Case Reports honors the reviewers who donated their time and expertise to the high quality and success of this journal.

Ruiz-Vanoye, Jorge A.; Díaz-Parra, Ocotlán; Nolazco-Flores, Juan Arturo; Canepa Saenz, Ana; Hernández, Víctor H.; Mendoza Gongora, Heriberto Quality Function Deployment (QFD) House of Quality for Strategic Planning of Computer Security of SMEs International Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics, vol. 4, núm. 1, eneroabril, 2013, pp. 39-53 International Journal of Combin...

the paper explores the research productivity of the journal vikalpa for the    period of 2003-2012, which is indexed in the ebsco on-line database. various quality aspects of the 437 research articles published in the period were studied. the study elaborates on various aspects of the journal such as year wise distribution of the articles, growth rate of articles, authorship pattern, and degree...

"I think the use of the term 'quality of life' in the title of the journal Quality of Life Research' has contributed to the confusion about the measures described within the journal. Health status measures are often referred to as quality of life measures when they are actually measuring quality of health not quality of life. There are very important differences between the two and when those d...

Objectives: Our research seeks to examine the correlation between the presence of physical medicine and rehabilitation journals in social networks and the SJR impact factor. Methods: We carried out a correlation study. For the research, we took into account all physical medicine and rehabilitation journals included in the SCImago Journal Rank. The number of followers on Twitter, Facebook, YouT...

Introduction: In the current study, we compared h5-index provided by Google Scholar (GS), impact factor (IF) provided by web of sciences (WOS), and SCImago journal rank indicator (SJR) provided by SCOPUS for quality assessment of nuclear medicine journals. Methods: 2013 h5-index, 2012 IF, and 2011 SJR of nuclear medicine journals were extracted from their publishers namely GS, WOS, and SCOPUS. ...