Insights from Brazilian medical journals

Insights from Brazilian Medical Journals

This review covers recent publications on the motor system (orthopedics and movement) in Brazilian journals recently admitted to the ISI-Thomson Journal of Citations Index. Two of these are still pleading for admission into PubMed which will eventually enhance their global visibility. We offer this contribution to experts on these areas who are regular readers of Revista da Associação Médica Br...

Impact factor, scientific production and quality of Brazilian medical journals.

Extracts from Medical Journals—Medicine

In the Philadelphia Medical Journal for March there is an article by John M Swan, m.d., of Philadelphia, giving a review of the recent literature on the intercommunicability of human and bovine tuberculosis He divides the paper into two classes : (I) Those giving proof of the transmissibility of human tuberculosis to animals, II) Those showing that bovine tuberculosis is transmissible to man. l...

Extracts from Foreign Medical Journals

have been met. He admires the hospitals, both plague and general, which he saw ; but is surprised that these have not all got water laid on, and that the water-carriage system of removal of excreta is not adopted. For the management of and teaching in the medical schools, he has a high admiration ; but remarks that " Bacteriology is treated in a markedly step-motherly way.'-5 Of the training of...

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...