Medical Journals Cited in Newspapers.

Representations of OxyContin in North American newspapers and medical journals.

BACKGROUND There are public concerns regarding OxyContin (Purdue Pharma, Canada) and charges within the pain medicine community that media coverage of the drug has been biased. OBJECTIVE To analyze and compare representations of OxyContin in medical journals and North American newspapers in an attempt to shed light on how each contributes to the 'social problem' associated with OxyContin. M...

Top-cited dermatology authors publishing in 5 "high-impact" general medical journals.

BACKGROUND In addition to publishing in the dermatologic literature, some dermatologists also publish articles in the general medical journals, which enjoy wide circulation and whose articles are often cited. OBJECTIVE To identify articles and citations to these articles that the most frequently cited authors in the dermatologic literature published in highly cited general medical journals. ...

Highly cited works in neurosurgery. Part I: the 100 top-cited papers in neurosurgical journals.

OBJECT The number of citations a published article receives is a measure of its impact in the scientific community. This study identifies and characterizes the current 100 top-cited articles in journals specifically dedicated to neurosurgery. METHODS Neurosurgical journals were identified using the Institute for Scientific Information Journal Citation Reports. A search was performed using Ins...

STATISTICS IN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNALS OF IRAN

Advertisements in Medical Journals

Sir,?I am tired of advertisements. To pick up genuine things from heaps of rubbish has become very difficult. I find advertisements of new medicine from new mushroom firms daily. Naturally all cannot be relied upon. So be pleased to inform the public whether the advertisements regarding medicines that are found in the Indian Medical Gazette or in other journals are genuine, reliable and can be ...