Introduction: Journal editors and statistical reviewers are often in the difficult position of catching statistical and research design problems after data have been collected and analyzed. The authors sought to learn from editors and reviewers of major public health journals what common statistical and design problems they find in submitted manuscripts and what they wished to communicate to au...

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Due to quest for quality, researchers often prefer citing articles from journals possessing higher Impact Factor. Until now, Journal Impact Factor has been measured as a popularity index. i.e. only the number of citations of the journal articles determine the impact factor, be it any domain, regardless of the quantum of research progressed so far. However, the art of citing has gradually change...

Introduction Citation frequency has become a popular index for quality evaluation of academic publications, e.g. articles, journals or books. Traditional altmetrics researches pay less attention to book-level evaluation, and they do not make use of content information. In this paper, we present a novel method, reviewmetrics, namely altmetrics to evaluate academic books based on reviews. We comb...

Case reports are often seen as a relatively easy way of getting published. Despite this, much wasted time and effort on the part of authors, reviewers and editors might be saved if intending authors followed some simple guidelines before committing themselves to paper. The rejection rate for case reports is extremely high. There are two main reasons for this: inappropriate case selection and in...

This paper shows the general perceptions of Spanish university stakeholders in relation to the university’s annual reports and the adequacy and potential of intellectual capital reporting. To this end, a questionnaire was designed and sent to every member of the Social Councils of Spanish public universities. It was thought that these participants would provide a good example of the attitude of...