BACKGROUND An important attribute of the traditional impact factor was the controversial 2-year citation window. So far, several scholars have proposed using different citation time windows for evaluating journals. However, there is no confirmation whether a longer citation time window would be better. How did the journal evaluation effects of 3IF, 4IF, and 6IF comparing with 2IF and 5IF? In or...

Causality and probability in the sciences Towards the end of the nineteenth century Karl Pearson noted that a prob-abilistic dependence between two variables does not necessarily imply that the two variables are causally connected (Pearson, 1897). This led Pearson, in the third (1911) edition of his book Pearson (1892), to argue that talk of cause and effect should be eradicated from science in...

Multimodal supply chains are characterized by multiple changes of transport modes and vehicles. Hence the risks for theft, untimely delivery and freight quality deterioration increase. There is hence a growing need to manage the security and efficiency of consignments from door to door. This paper describes the results of the Finnish national SCIE (Supply Chain Security and Integrity) project, ...

As Asia plays a leading role in global economic development, the scientific advances made in this region, including those involving psychiatry, should be more accessible to the rest of the world. Therefore, under the leadership of psychiatrists from Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and so on, the Asian College of Neuropsychopharmacology (AsCNP) was established in 2009. Although AsCNP is the newest ...

BACKGROUND In China, the field of orthopedics has experienced significant growth over the past 12 years. However, the recent status of research on orthopedics among individuals in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan is unknown. In this study, we investigated characteristics and trends of orthopedics publications from these three regions. METHODS Between 2003 and 2014, all articles published...

Just as a snake sheds its old skin, the Journal of Exercise Rehabilitation (JER) will launch a new website in English in 2013. Thus, it is now making an effort to become one of the most renowned international peer-reviewed journals in the field of rehabilitation medicine, sports medicine, sports physiology, rehabilitation education, and rehabilitation welfare. The JER will be published as an op...

109 Editorial Recently, we were invited to attend the workshop for members of the Editorial Board of the Archives of Plastic Surgery (APS) to share our experience of the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) indexing of the Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Mo-tility (impact factor [IF] of 2013, 2.698). The Editor-in-Chief wanted us to review two issues of APS and to comment on them. Throug...

how to cite this article: shakiba m, nejad biglari h, alaee mr. digital and dental malformation and short stature in a patient with neurological problems: a variant of the oculodentodigital dysplasia syndrome or a new syndrome?iran j child neurol autumn 2012; 6(4): 51-54.   abstract several syndromes have been recognized with digital abnormality and cns involvement such as oculodentodigital dys...