El año 2021 nos ha traído varias novedades en los productos que se utilizan para evaluar la calidad de las revistas académicas y por transitividad producción científica investigadores porque continúa dando un gran peso métricas frente a basadas artículos. Hay muchas voces nivel internacional piden cambio este sentido reclaman alejarse índices impacto. Sin embargo, realidad es todavía seguimos m...

A s 2012 draws to a close, I am delighted to report to our readers that IJCH has successfully transformed itself into an Open Access and completely online journal, joining the family of journals published by the capable hands of our colleagues in Co-Action. Without fixed publication dates, manuscripts are now published online as soon as they are copyedited and laid out, greatly reducing the tim...

The developing mammalian brain is destined for a female phenotype unless exposed to gonadal hormones during a perinatal sensitive period. It has been assumed that the undifferentiated brain is masculinized by direct induction of transcription by ligand-activated nuclear steroid receptors. We found that a primary effect of gonadal steroids in the highly sexually-dimorphic preoptic area (POA) is ...

1 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‑Non Commercial‑Share Alike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non‑commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. Welcome to the 13th year of successful publishing of Pharmacognosy magazine and the f...

Socioeconomic category influenced the use of the Glasgow Emergency Medical Service, with increased contact rates by children and adults from deprived areas. For elderly people, the highest contact rate was among the most affluent. While the effect of affluence on raising expectations and service use has been reported, this association has not previously been linked to age. 5 After contacting th...

Mid-June has always been a period of great hope or perhaps fear for editors of medical journals. This is the time of the year when new figures for impact factors are released from the ISI Web of Knowledge. However , most editors these days have a good insight into the development of this very much debated instrument for evaluation of a journal's relative importance for the distribution of scien...

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...