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When an article is rejected by a medical journal, the standard assumption is that the article is unsound or there is something wrong with the author. Alternatively, it may have been because the journal editor was concerned about the consequences should the article be published. This article seeks to inform discussion by providing a series of instances in which editorial concerns about the conse...

Ramification of indexing of medical journals

The 154 manuscripts published by HSR Proceedings in Intensive Care and Cardiovascular Anesthesia (HSR Proc Intensive Care Cardiovasc Anesth) in the January 2009 – December 2012 period are now indexed in Pubmed. English is the language for manuscript submission in HSR Proc Intensive Care Cardiovasc Anesth. All manuscripts undergo peer review. Even if the Journal publishes several articles in the...

Getting our journals to developing countries.

Vocabulary Density Method for Customized Indexing of MEDLINE Journals

Automated indexing of MEDLINE citations remains a challenging problem due to the growing volume of citations and the over 27,000 MeSH indexing terms that can be assigned to them. This paper presents a corpus-based approach to improving indexing for specific journals. The Vocabulary Density approach takes into account frequencies of indexing terms previously assigned to a journal when recommendi...

Indexing of Handwritten Historical Documents - Recent Progress

Indexing and searching collections of handwritten archival documents and manuscripts has always been a challenge because handwriting recognizers do not perform well on such noisy documents. Given a collection of documents written by a single author (or a few authors), one can apply a technique called word spotting. The approach is to cluster word images based on their visual appearance, after s...