OBJECTIVE Cross-sectional blindness prevalence surveys are essential to plan and monitor eye care services. Incomplete or inaccurate reporting can prevent effective translation of research findings. The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement is a 32 item checklist developed to improve reporting of observational studies. The aim of this study was ...

The internet has fundamentally altered scientific publishing; this article discusses current models and how they affect this journal. The greatest innovation is a new range of open access journals published only on the internet, aimed at rapid publication and universal access. In most cases authors pay a publication charge for the overhead costs of the journal. Journals that are published by pr...

Current flow of information necessitates a systematic approach to what authors, reviewers and editors read and use as references. The objectivity of communication is increasingly dependent on a comprehensive literature search through online databases (1). Academic institutions wishing to succeed in the global competition secure access to the prestigious databases and archives (2). Journal edito...

BACKGROUND Research on the social determinants of health is increasingly using welfare regime theory. Although a key argument is that population health will be better and health inequalities lower in social democratic regimes than in others, this research has not been subjected to a systematic review. This paper identifies and assesses empirical studies that explicitly use a welfare regime typo...

Colombian journals need to be characterized as having an editorial guideline oriented towards achieving international standards and have the best conditions to be accepted in databases, repositories, and bibliometric indices. Deployment of proposals should encompass aspects of policy research, training and technology necessary to induce a significant change in the diffusion and dissemination of...

In Iran, the number of published articles has increased significantly in the basic and applied sciences including medicine and its subspecialties during the recent years. The present study reviewed Iranian science production in medicine, focusing on Iranian medical journals and assessing the current status of Iranian medical journals in several information databases. The study revealed that onl...

BACKGROUND There is increasing recognition that the development of evidence-informed health policy is not only a technical problem of knowledge exchange or translation, but also a political challenge. Yet, while political scientists have long considered the nature of political systems, the role of institutional structures, and the political contestation of policy issues as central to understand...

Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences is published by the American Chemical Society. 1155 Sixteenth Street N.W., Washington, DC 20036 Operation of an international data center: Canadian Scientific Numeric Database Service Gordon H. Wood, John R. Rodgers, and S. Roger Gough J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., 1993, 33 (1), 31-35• DOI: 10.1021/ci00011a006 • Publication Date (Web): 01 May ...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to determine whether the use of specialist transport personnel improves patient outcome at the receiving hospital for critically ill patients transferred to higher centers. MATERIALS AND METHODS A search of 6 electronic databases, 15 relevant journals, and the reference lists of all retrieved articles was conducted for studies comparing outcome at the receivin...

Background and aim There is a competition between scientific journals in order to achieve leadership in their scientific field. There are several Romanian biomedical journals which are published in English and a smaller number in Romanian. We need a periodical analysis of their visibility and ranking according to scientometric measures. Methods We searched all biomedical journals indexed on i...