s a lecturer of biomedical writing, I have usually been asked about the impact factor of journals and how authors can publish their scientific manuscripts in journals with high impact factors. This is particularly important for faculty members since recently, many officials in Iran evaluate the scientific merit of an article based on the impact factor of the journal that published it. Sometimes...

Objective: The goal of this systematic review was to examine the reporting quality of the method section of quantitative systematic reviews and meta-analyses from 2009 to 2016 in the field of industrial and organizational psychology with the help of the Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (MARS), and to update previous research, such as the study of Aytug et al. (2012) and Dieckmann et al. (2009)...

The incentive structure of a scientist's life is increasingly mimicking economic principles. While intensely criticized, the journal impact factor (JIF) has taken a role as the new currency for scientists. Successful goal-directed behavior in academia thus requires knowledge about the JIF. Using functional neuroimaging we examined how the JIF, as a powerful incentive in academia, has shaped the...

This editorial is the product of a recent communication with Journal Editor Stammers. Moss and Thompson, Editors of the journal Quality in Health Care adopted a new outline for quality improvement reports (1). They made the point that clinical quality reports (like case reports) do not fit the traditional scientific publication outline of introduction, method, results, and discussion. Just as M...

© Deutsche Dermatologische Gesellschaft • Journal compilation © Blackwell Verlag GmbH, Berlin • JDDG • 1610-0379/2012 JDDG | 2012 (Band 10) Preamble The present guideline was primarily prepared by representatives of the field dermatology and dermatosurgery and is based on the S1 guideline of the German Society of Dermatology from 2004 [1]. Besides the dermatologists many other disciplines are i...

This article introduces the new Continuing Medical Education (CME) section of the interactive Journal of Radiology Case Reports. This section provides SA-CMEs which are a new requirement for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) by the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and other medical specialties.

BACKGROUND Little information exists on the research productivity of successfully promoted tenure-track Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) faculty. OBJECTIVE To determine the research productivity that typically results in successful promotion. DESIGN We collected publicly available curriculum vitae (CVs) from faculty currently in accredited DPT programs and who had been successfully promoted...

Introduction: In the current study, we compared h5-index provided by Google Scholar (GS), impact factor (IF) provided by web of sciences (WOS), and SCImago journal rank indicator (SJR) provided by SCOPUS for quality assessment of nuclear medicine journals. Methods: 2013 h5-index, 2012 IF, and 2011 SJR of nuclear medicine journals were extracted from their publishers namely GS, WOS, and SCOPUS....