Shilajit, a medicine herb commonly used in Ayurveda, has been reported to contain at least 85 minerals in ionic form that act on a variety of chemical, biological, and physical stressors. The substantia gelatinosa (SG) neurons of the trigeminal subnucleus caudalis (Vc) are involved in orofacial nociceptive processing. Shilajit has been reported to be an injury and muscular pain reliever but the...

The purpose of this study was to examine trends in duplicate publication in Korean medical articles indexed in the KoreaMed database from 2004 to 2009, before and after a campaign against scientific misconduct launched by the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors in 2006. The study covered period from 2007 to 2012; and 5% of the articles indexed in KoreaMed were retrieved by random samp...

The registry on to the most prestigious databases within 1 year after launching is a very impressive achievement. We believe that the publication standard, e-journal sup-plementation process in the homepage and quality of the articles have been acknowledged at high international standards. We express deep gratitude to all those who helped with the foundation and processing of Clin Exp Vaccine R...

The article overviews some achievements and problems of Korean medical journals published in the highly competitive journal environment. Activities of Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE) are viewed as instrumental for improving the quality of Korean articles, indexing large number of local journals in prestigious bibliographic databases and launching new abstract and citation ...

After changing its language from Korean or English to English only in 2010, the journal metrics of Diabetes & Metabolism Journal (DMJ) were analyzed to assess whether this change in the journal policy was successful. The journal metric items that were analyzed were the following: impact factor; total citations; countries of authors; proportion of the articles funded out of the total number of o...

Just one year ago, I congratulated the changes happened to the Journal of Korean Academy of Conservative Dentistry, the official journal of the Korean Academy of Conservative Dentistry. From the first issue of volume 37 in March 2012, we changed the journal name to Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics (RDE; Restor Dent Endod, standardized abbreviation of the journal suggested by the List of Ti...

BACKGROUND Flawed or misleading articles may be retracted because of either honest scientific errors or scientific misconduct. This study explored the characteristics of retractions in medical journals published in Korea through the KoreaMed database. METHODS We retrieved retraction articles indexed in the KoreaMed database from January 1990 to January 2016. Three authors each reviewed the de...