New journals for publishing medical case reports

New journals for publishing medical case reports.

Because they do not rank highly in the hierarchy of evidence and are not frequently cited, case reports describing the clinical circumstances of single patients are seldom published by medical journals. However, many clinicians argue that case reports have significant educational value, advance medical knowledge, and complement evidence-based medicine. Over the last several years, a vast number...

Open access publishing: a new direction for medical journals.

Publishing qualitative research in medical journals.

Qualitative research makes an important contribution to research in the medical sciences. It has a particular role in providing understanding with respect to decisions and behaviours of patients and professionals, in exploring factors affecting the implementation of new interventions, and in developing theory in fields such as illness behaviour, clinical decision making, illness prevention, and...

Three New Medical Journals

lie three iNew Medical Journals, whose promoters appear to believe that a future lies before them. The first of these is the British Journal of Children's Diseases, which appeared in January of this year. It appears that an Anglo-American journal of children's diseases was born in 1896, but the Anglican twin appears to have died of marasmus in early infancy while the American continues to flour...

Publishing in peer-reviewed journals. Fundamentals for new investigators.

According to statistics recently compiled by Aldrich et al. (l), in 1989 and in 1990 a total of 406 individuals received their PhD degrees in areas represented by the American Physiological Society. The majority of these individuals have started their careers in the academic, federal, or private sectors and have assumed professional responsibilities that include the communication of their scien...