Abstract Since enactment in 2000, Japan’s Domestic Violence (DV) Law has been amended four times. No amendments have made to Elder Abuse Prevention Law, despite awareness of its imperfections. This study examined trends the number journal articles, and titles by content those using a KJ Method, determine how research literature informed DV law, identify gaps knowledge further needs related elde...

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The invisible hands of peer reviewers play a determining role in the eventual fate of submissions to international English-medium journals. This study builds on the assumption that non-native researchers and prospective academic authors may find the whole strive for publication, and more specifically, the tough review process, less threatening if they are aware of journal reviewers’ expectation...

In this edition of IJIC, a bibliometric study of academic journals in the field of integrated care quoted the “Bradford’s law”: a skewed concentration of academic articles in “core” journals [1]. The article also demonstrated yet another Bradford’s law: a skewed concentration of articles in a small number of countries with little relevance to population size. In particular, the distribution of ...

adopt the author’s assertions. In particular, the purpose of scientific research articles is to devise a certain law or hypothesis on the basis of the researcher’s observations or collected data and to persuade with the law or the hypothesis. For effective persuasion, the expression as well as the assertion should be logical. A method which is used extensively in a number of scientific research...