Scientific Output of Spanish Dermatology Departments in International Journals, 1997-2006

[Scientific output of Spanish dermatology departments in international journals, 1997-2006].

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the scientific output in international journals by Spanish dermatologists between 1997 and 2006 using PubMed. MATERIAL AND METHODS Publications were identified with the following search query: (dermat*) and (spain or espagne or espanha or espana or spanien), with the limit "affiliation". Articles described in PubMed as "journal articles" or "r...

a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

Identifying randomized clinical trials in Spanish-language dermatology journals.

INTRODUCTION The necessary foundation for good clinical practice lies in knowledge derived from clinical research. Evidence from randomized clinical trials (RCTs) is the pillar on which decisions about therapy are based. OBJECTIVE To search exhaustively and rigorously to identify RCTs in dermatology journals published in Spanish. METHODS We located dermatology journals through the following...

Analysis of the Quality of Clinical Trials Published in Spanish-Language Dermatology Journals Between 1997 and 2012.

INTRODUCTION The value of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) undertaken to identify an association between an intervention and an outcome is determined by their quality and scientific rigor. OBJECTIVE To assess the methodological quality of RCTs published in Spanish-language dermatology journals. METHODS By way of a systematic manual search, we identified all the RCTs in journals published i...

[Prestige and profitability of Spanish scientific journals depend on international use of their contents].