Those inconspicuous journals: are they scholary publications?

Predatory Journals: What are they?

Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports | pISSN 2250-0685 | eISSN | Available on www.jocr.co.in | doi: 2321-3817 10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.330 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, p...

Are Those with Darker Personality Traits more Willing to Corrupt When They Feel Anxious?

This unprecedented research endeavors to investigate the relationship between dark personality traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and corruption intention through the mediation of anxiety.  Based on the resource conservation theory, it is hypothesized that those higher in dark personality traits are more inclined to corrupt when they feel anxious. Having collected data...

Scholary Journals on the Net: A Reader's Assessment

Publications in Refereed Journals

There exists an interplay between vaccine coverage, disease prevalence, and the vaccinating behaviour of individuals. Moreover, because of herd immunity, there is also a strategic interaction between individuals when they are deciding whether or not to vaccinate, since the probability that an individual becomes infected depends upon how many other individuals are vaccinated. To understand this ...

How evidence-based are publications in clinical ophthalmic journals?

PURPOSE To evaluate the methodological quality and level of evidence of publications in four leading general clinical ophthalmology journals. METHODS All 1919 articles published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, Archives of Ophthalmology, British Journal of Ophthalmology, and Ophthalmology in 2004 were reviewed. The methodological rigor and the level of evidence in the articles were r...