In comparison with other medical disciplines and based on citation metrics, German
epidemiology is remarkably strong: this is the conclusion reached by H.-E. Wichmann …

1 Garfield E. Citation indexes for science: a new dimension in documentation through
association of ideas. Science 1955; 122: 108–11.(Reprinted Int J Epidemiol 2006; 35: 1123 …

Do you know what 'entelechy'means? It was in the title of a manuscript IJE received and it
got me wondering what it meant and why the authors had used such an obscure word in …

Fifteen years ago many editors and academics had never heard of impact factors. Now they
are obsessed with them. When I was first editor of the BMJ in 1991 I would attend the …

'The uncritical citation of disputed data by a writer, whether it be deliberate or not, is a
serious matter. Of course, knowingly propagandizing unsubstantiated claims is particularly …

The German Academy of Sciences—Leopoldina—assessed the state of public health
research in Germany (Leopoldina 2015). The highly welcomed report identified the need to …

The editors of Epidemiology have suggested that the impact factor does not influence where
authors choose to submit papers, based on a before-and-after comparison of the ratio of …

The impact factor of a journal reflects the average number of citations of articles published in
the journal in the past 2 years and is a much debated but still widely used measure of a …

Research methods and tools comprise a lion's share among the most cited papers across
science [1]. Methodological tools are essential to make discoveries, assess them, organize …

METHODS We used the most recent meta-analysis of job strain and incident coronary heart
disease to identify relevant studies for this analysis (6). According to the total evidence from …