first five years of scientific publications in jcmr / the editorial

Editorial: CAIS, The First Five Years

WELCOME to the Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS). With the publication of this editorial, the first four articles, and an opinion article on January 4, 1999 the journal is now a reality.

Editorial bias in scientific publications.

INTRODUCTION Many authors believe that there are biases in scientific publications. Editorial biases include publication bias; which refers to those situations where the results influence the editor's decision, and editorial bias refers to those situations where factors related with authors or their environment influence the decision. DEVELOPMENT This paper includes an analysis of the situati...

Editorial Article Plagiarism in Scientific Publications

Editorial: After Five Years

Increasingly journals are using a variety of measures to benchmark the quality of their publications. Upon reflection one can source numerous statistics from reliable sources to find key indicators that showcase both the breadth and depth of relevance of a journal within a global academic and industry community of practice. We thought it especially important to present some key indicators in th...

The first five years of nuclear medicine activities in Iran [Persian]

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[North-South relations in scientific publications: editorial racism?].

The aim of the present study was to comment on the possible existence of editorial prejudice among the editors of scientific journals from Northern countries against Southern authors. We highlight that a study using bibliometric methods documented an important imbalance in terms of the international scientific production of health researchers from high-income countries (the "North") and those f...