Land of rising publication

Rising Publication Delays Inflate Journal Impact Factors

Journal impact factors have become an important criterion to judge the quality of scientific publications over the years, influencing the evaluation of institutions and individual researchers worldwide. However, they are also subject to a number of criticisms. Here we point out that the calculation of a journal's impact factor is mainly based on the date of publication of its articles in print ...

Rays of hope in the land of the rising sun.

Perspectives I n this issue of PLoS Medicine, Lundy Braun and colleagues from the Race, Medicine, and Science Workshop discuss " the trouble with race " [1]. They argue that the heterogeneity of racial and ethnic categories (and a lack of consensus on how these categories should be defi ned and measured) make them poor markers for underlying differences in the genotypic, cultural, and structura...

Publication, publication, publication…

2013 has been a year of relative stability at the Annals. After two years of rapid changes in staff and implementation of our electronic manuscript handling, this year we had time and people to consolidate. Authors in particular will have noticed the hard work of Kim Lewry, our Editorial Assistant, who has tracked down papers that were stuck in the system and has made a substantial contribution...

Publication of Iranian Textbook for Psychiatry

One year publication of Human-Information Interaction

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