Cardiology has been and is a very significant fraction of the Brazilian contribution to science. In older days, the most significant part of this work was directed to foreign periodicals, but the quasi-simultaneous emergence of SciELO and PUBMED has ordained a redirection of much of this work to Brazilian periodicals. We here survey some of this more recent contribution for the benefit of reade...

I suggest a revised hypothesis for future testing. The revised hypothesis assumes a threshold effect for bafflegab. That is, prestige is related to complexity up to a certain level, beyond which there is no gain. One possible reason is that simple writing is not representative of what readers perceive as scientific writing. Alternatively, it may be that the reader's inability to understand the ...

The recent publication on “Scientific misconduct encountered by APAME journals: an online survey” is very interesting. As noted, ethical culture of researchers/authors and reviewers, antiplagiarism software, and technical support to detect problem are raised as important insights. In fact, not only pathology but also other medical sciences presently encounter the problem of scientific misconduc...

journals has revolutionized scientific publishing. Open access to medical publications has the potential to boost the timely and widespread dissemination of new research findings and, ultimately, to have a more immediate impact on clinical practice than traditional publishing methods. However, several aspects of open access publishing remain to be discussed and clarified by the scientific commu...

introduction: in order to cope with the crisis of serials cost and problems associated with the shortage of budget in libraries and facilitating the access to scientific journals, the principle of open access to scientific publications and usually in the form of electronic journals has evolved during the last 15 years. this research aimed to clarifying the amount of citations of isi web of scie...

today, journals are trying to improve their rankings both at local and international scales. achievement of the journal relies heavily on our ability to publish articles in scientific journals with the highest quality. in this regard, high quality manuscript review plays an important role in supporting editors-in-chief an d executive s to choose the most relevant papers and also helping authors...

The increase in the size of the scientific community created an explosion in scientific production. We have analyzed the dynamics of biomedical scientific output during 1957-2007 by applying a bibliometric analysis of the PubMed database using different keywords representing specific biomedical topics. With the assumption that increased scientific interest will result in increased scientific ou...

scientific journals are the primary mode of formal communication in science. the isi impact factor serves as a bibliometric indicator that measures the average citation rate of an article in a journal and has been widely used for the assessment of the quality of scientific production of individuals, research teams or institutions. the purpose of this paper was to present the impact factor, exam...