Have Online International Medical Journals Made Local Journals Obsolete?

Have Online International Medical Journals Made Local Journals Obsolete?

B ackground to the debate: All of the major international medical journals are now available both in print and online. Being online increases the potential for these journals to have a more global distribution. With the rise of these online international journals, what functions do local journals serve? Only a few journals in the developing world have a long history of survival. Many are strugg...

STATISTICS IN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNALS OF IRAN

Medical journals are dead. Long live medical journals.

© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors The year is 2003. The world’s leading medical journal has gone bankrupt. Three leading Englishlanguage cardiology journals are merging. Some general medical journals are thriving; others have begun to founder. Dr. Harold Varmus has received the Nobel Peace Prize. The tidal wave that led to these events is PubMed Central, a central, entirely e...

Radiologia Brasileira: ranking among international radiology journals and among Brazilian medical journals

1. Full Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected]. The most commonly used criterion for evaluating the quality of scientific journals is the impact factor (IF), created by the American company Thomson Reuters through the Web of Knowledge index known as Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The index is calculated by the Instit...

Genre Analysis of Applied linguistics Research Article Introductions Published in International and Iranian Local Journals

This study aimed to investigate the realizations of verbs’ syntactic and semantic features inmoves of applied linguistics research article introductions published in international andIranian local journals. To this end, a data of 30 research article introductions (15 published inIranian local journals and 15 in high impact international journals) was selected. The researcharticle introductions ...