350 Years of Scientific Journals

350 Years of Scientific Periodicals.

Selection of Core Dental Journals using Citation Analysis of Scientific Journals in the Field of Dentistry

  Objective: Citation analysis is a bibliometric method used for the calculation of the mean number of citations and detection of highly cited references, frequency distribution of citations in different languages, update rate, efficacy of resources and number of core journals of a scientific domain. This process elucidates the information needs of researchers in a specific realm of science and...

Scientific Achievements of Medical Journals in Occupational Accidents

Background: Occupational accidents are the second cause of occupational fatality in Iran and are among the major health, social, and economic risk factors. Since the publication of scientific articles in the field of occupational accidents reflects the concern of researchers to this important issue, the present study aimed to evaluate the scientific achievements in the field of occupational acc...

1656-2006: 350 years of intravenous injection.

In the article “The history of peripheral intravenous catheters” in ACTA ANAESTHESIOL. BELG. 56, 271-82, 2005 (1), it is stated that the first serious attempts of intravenous administration of drugs were made in 1658 by Sir Christopher Wren (16321723). This date is contradictory to common historical knowledge which dates Wrens experiments back to the year 1656 and give reason to celebrate the 3...

Celebrating 350 years of the Royal Society

Back in the 1660s, the Royal Society’s founders met regularly to discuss scientific ideas and perform experiments; the outcomes of their experiments and discussions were recorded in the Society’s Transactions. The world of science has been utterly transformed since that era. Nonetheless, these activities, pioneered by the Society, remain the accepted procedures whereby scientific ideas are crit...