Conflict of interest (COI) affects every aspect of medicine, including clinical care, teaching, and research. According to one definition, “A conflict of interest exists when professional judgment concerning a primary interest (such as patients' welfare or the validity of research) may be influenced by a secondary interest (such as financial gain). Perceptions of conflict of interest are as imp...

INTRODUCTION Population aging is a feature of all countries in the world. According to statistics, the Republic of Serbia is one of the countries with the majority of the elderly. Taking this into account, are articles on the elderly well represented in domestic medical journals? OBJECTIVE The aim of the paper was to determine whether there was a sufficient number of articles on the elderly i...

By searching Medline/PubMed bibliographic database we collected data on publications of two groups of PhD candidates who earned their PhD degrees at University of Zagreb Medical School in 2000 and 2010. We identifed their publications in the Croatian medical journals and separately in the Croatian language. First group of PhD candidates (y 2000) published in the Croatian journals 34% of all pub...

conclusions iranian nursing journals should publish special issues in the neglected subject areas. these journals should encourage authors to publish research evidence with higher quality. background little is known about the features of iranian nursing journals, specifically the subject areas used in articles, study designs, sampling methods, international collaboration of iranian nursing scho...

Publication lag is a determinant to journal efficiency that was not yet studied concerning Korean medical journals. To measure publication lag, we investigated the publication timestamps of 4,762 articles published by 10 Korean medical journals indexed in Scopus database, randomly selected from the KoreaMed Synapse since 2013. The total publication lag was 246.5 (Q1, Q3; 178.0, 347.0) days. The...

SIR,-Like you in your Nov 17 editorial "Brevity in The Lancet" we decided to "store, rather than print, the fine detail" of certain articles which we call, in their published form, Technical Briefs. We have published 5-10 in each monthly issue since 1986. We have been surprised at the rarity of requests for these stored details: among several hundred Technical Briefs published so far, we have r...

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the use of the best available research evidence to improve the quality of medical judgments and clinical care . Every year, the Julius Centre, University of Malaya organises workshops on EBP. During these workshops, we teach participants EBP skills. Despite being equipped with these skills, the participants continue to face the challenge of accessing databases a...

The citation error numbers are recorded as number and percentage according to the error grade. The total number of citations with errors among all published journals was 103 (25.8%). The number of references with errors ranged from the lowest error rate of 22% for the European Respiratory Journal to the highest of 31% recorded for the Respiratory Medicine and bibliographically classified errors...

PURPOSE To identify and examine the characteristics of the 50 top-cited articles in medical education. METHOD Two searches were conducted in the Web of Knowledge database in March 2014: a search of medical education journals in the category "Education, Scientific Discipline" (List A) and a keyword search across all journals (List B). Articles identified were reviewed for citation count, count...