Doctoral theses are an important source of publication in universities, although little
research has been carried out on the publications resulting from theses, on so-called …

Swedish publication-based biomedical doctoral dissertations examined since 1992 were
compared with a sample from 1968–92. Theses in either group had an average of four …

518 JAMC• 22 FÉVR. 2000; 162 (4) formed strategic alliances with general medical journals
to provide expert commentaries in those publications. Readers were well served by these …

Objective: To provide clarity on the professional medical writer as author or contributor by
examining what “a substantial contribution” and “accountability” mean with respect to …

A scientometric study was performed to assess the quantitative trend of patent literature in
MEDLINE throughout 1965-2005. The kind of languages, publication type, journals, and the …

Most biomedical journals accept original research articles in the form of “brief reports”. We
compared the citations to full papers versus brief reports in a sample of journals on …

The main purpose of this short communication is to identify and analyze retracted editorials
in the biomedical literature. Twenty-five of the 33 editorials are chosen for further analysis …

This research analysed the citations styles used in 1,100 high‐impact biomedical journals
and the importance attributed by their editors and other members of the editorial office to …

Background: To our knowledge, no studies have evaluated authorship patterns and
characteristics of articles in pharmacy journals, Objective: To investigate changes over a 20 …

Successful publishing of an article depends on several factors, including the structure of the
main text, the so-called introduction, methods, results and discussion structure (IMRAD). The …