CDDis celebrates 1000 publications of essential research

Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research celebrates its anniversary

Cardiovascular diseases are known as the disorders of the heart and the blood vessels, which claim 17.1 million lives a year worldwide (World Health Organization, 2010). In the United States, almost in every 34 s, someone dies from the diseases, and each year there are 6 million hospitalizations accounting for near $300 billion healthcare cost due to the diseases.[1] The major risk factors cont...

AACR celebrates 50 years of tobacco research and policy.

This yearmarks the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health. This landmark publication found adefinitive, causal linkbetween smoking and lung cancer in men, and, along with the subsequent reports, spurred a series of important public health initiatives that have stemmed the tide of tobacco-related death and disease in the United States. When Surgeon General Lu...

The Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute celebrates its first decade

Do ‘ Faculty of 1000 ’ ( F 1000 ) ratings of ecological publications serve as reasonable predictors of their future impact ?

There is an increasing demand for an effective means of post-publication evaluation of ecological work that avoids pitfalls associated with using the impact factor of the journal in which the work was published. One approach that has been gaining momentum is the ‘Faculty of 1000’ (hereafter F1000) evaluation procedure, in which panel members identify what they believe to be the most ‘important’...

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