Staying relevant.

1 In this issue, we have an article on ‘Publication productivity and citation analysis of the Medical Journal of Malaysia’ by Sanni and Zainab.1 Their paper is a glimpse into the world of medical publishing. It is not primarily an audit of the MJM. It is an exercise in bibliometrics. It just happens to use the MJM as an available subject. It uses the MJM as a test case for Lotka’s law and Bradford’s law and to study the versatility of Google Scholar. It finds that the MJM does follow the norms of the age of articles cited and has a core group of about 40 journals which are cited about 30% of the time. What is also amazing is that during the five year study period over 1,500 different publication sources are cited in the 580 articles published.