it is my great pleasure to announce the publication of the first edition of the journal of craniomaxillofacial research and i would therefore like to take this opportunity to point out a brief history of the field ofmaxillofacial surgery and also the craniomaxillofacial research center in iran. the discipline of oral and maxillofacial surgery was initially formed and taught under the name of or...

journal performance metrics are designed to help users know the best journals in different scientific fields. in this article, some journals indexed in isc database are compared using scopus and isc performance indicators. the scopus journal analyzer uses snip and sjr as alternatives for if which consider citation analysis differently. new performance indicators consider differences in citation...

this evaluation was undertaken to analyse the overall merit of studies for publication in medical journals. peer review, in which peer experts evaluate the value of a manuscript submitted to a professional journal, is regarded as a crucial step in publication. it helps to ensure that published articles describe experiments that focus on important issues and that the research is well designed an...