XML has been accepted as a universal format for data interchange and publication. It can be applied in the applications in which the data of a database needs to be viewed in XML format so that the data being viewed takes more semantics and is easily understood. In these applications, the user of the data to be viewed sees only XML data, not the database. He may use XML query languages such as X...

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background and purpose: one of the most reliable methods to evaluate the scientific status of nursing is the assessment of the trend and quality of related articles. this study aimed to determine the publication status and general quality of articles published by iranian nursing scholars engaged in different nursing and midwifery schools in well-known international journals during 2000-2011. me...

on november 1st  2016, springer nature announced that springer and biomed central are retracting 58 articles published by iran-based authors across seven journals. the decision was made after thorough investigation following receiving allegations of plagiarism, peer review, and authorship manipulation in an effort to mislead the review system (1, 2). not all papers were involved with all of the...

The changes reflect our ongoing determination to offer the speediest publication times and the most accurate figure reproduction. No more paper please Our new instructions to authors are geared entirely toward online submission. Beyond saving trees, this switch to accepting only electronic manuscripts means faster processing of papers from submission to review to publication. Currently, most re...

The scientific journal has been greatly affected by the advent of its online digital accessibility. It is the priority publication medium for scientific communication, one of the document categories where changes in the electronic format uncover an extensive action, different from traditional practices. The extensive communication -a.k.a. the emblematic model of network interactions -comes as m...

The article ‘Afatinib in advanced NSCLC: a profile of its use’, written by Emma D. Deeks and Gillian M. Keating, was originally published Online First without open access. After Online First publication, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. requested that the article be Open Choice to make the article an open access publication. Post-publication open access was funded by Boehringer Ingelh...

The article “One-dimensional drift-flux correlations for two-phase flow in medium-size channels” written by Takashi Hibiki, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) 17 April 2019 without open access. After publication Volume 1, Issue 2, page 85–100, author(s) decided to opt Open Choice and make an access publication. Therefore, copyrigh...