BJN ‘Citation Classic’

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When I first began studying drug effeds in children with psychiatric problems, symptom ratings by teachers and parents had already been collected on several hundred outpatient children by Leon Eisenberg and colleagues at Johns Hopkins Hospital. It occurred to me that other investigators might find a brief symptom scale useful in similar treatment studies. I proceeded to coiled data from normal ...

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The technique facilitates karyotype analysis primarily of cel ls grown in vitro Following standard preliminary treatments, the crucial step is the complete air-drying of cel ls on slides directly after fixation. This produces a more complete flattening of intact chromosome complements than is usually achieved manually [The SCI indicates that this paper has been cited in over 510 publications si...

The OECD Blue Book has become a citation classic.

One of the highest accolades a scientist can achieve is to have a paper selected by the Science Citation Index of the Philadelphia Library as the most cited paper of the year. There can be no doubt that the Recombinant DNA Safety Considerations, published by the OECD in 1986, and known as the Blue Book after the color of the cover, is the resource document most frequently cited at the internati...

BJN impact factor increases by 25%.

On 17 June 2010, the Institute for Scientific Information released its annual statistics on citations of articles published in previous years in scientific journals. A number of different summary statistics are produced by the Institute for Scientific Information, the most widely discussed being the impact factor. I have used previous editorials to keep readers informed of the most recent stati...

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