المؤلفون: Portsmouth, Daniel

المصدر: Medical Writing; Mar2012, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p26-35, 10p

مصطلحات موضوعية: VACCINE research, SCHOLARLY peer review, PERIODICAL publishing, RESEARCH periodicals, IMPACT factor (Citation analysis), COMMUNICABLE diseases

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مستخلص: The most effective way of communicating new research findings is by publishing them in a peer-reviewed journal which is widely read and highly respected. To ensure that important new data are shared with the appropriate audience in a timely manner, a number of important considerations need to be taken into account when choosing a suitable journal. This article provides an analysis of journals which publish original articles describing studies of vaccines against human infectious diseases. A search of PubMed identified over 80 journals which recently published vaccine-related studies. These journals were filtered according to impact factor and number and percentage of vaccine-related studies published from 2006 to 2010, resulting in a core of 32 journals which frequently publish studies of vaccines against human infectious diseases. A survey was then undertaken to gather additional information with respect to acceptance rate, average time needed from manuscript submission to acceptance and from acceptance to publication. This dataset should provide a useful source of metrics which can help ensure that manuscripts are submitted to the most appropriate journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Lee, Melanie, Milligan, Nancy

المصدر: Medical Writing; Sep2013, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p212-214, 3p

مصطلحات موضوعية: IMPACT factor (Citation analysis), PUBLISHING & ethics, MEDICAL literature, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL citations, PERIODICAL publishing, LITERATURE

مستخلص: The article discusses the journal impact factor, ethical publishing and medical literature practices, and errors in medical literature references. It says that the journal impact factor is the most used method in assessing the quality a journal. It adds that the bibliography of references section directs the reader to background literature and allows the researchers' work to be acknowledged. Moreover, the role of medical writers in ensuring the ethical publishing practices is discussed.