OBJECTIVE To determine whether availability of journals on MEDLINE as FUTON (full text
on the Net) affects their impact factor. MATERIAL AND METHODS A comprehensive search …

Methods: Through MEdliNE with an institutional subscription, the 2004 online status of
“Medicine, general and internal” journals listed in the institute for scientific information (isi) …

Context Until recently, Web of Science was the only database available to track citation
counts for published articles. Other databases are now available, but their relative …

Objective: Journal impact factor (JIF) is often used as a measure of journal quality. A
retrospective cohort study determined the ability of clinical article and journal characteristics …

Background While open access publishing among cardiovascular journals has increased in
scope over the last decade, the relationship between open access and article citation …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The development of electronic editions of scientific
journals and the rapid spread of scientific information might modify the pattern the …

Objectives To examine whether the number of early online accesses to medical research
articles predicts citations in the scientific literature over time. Study Design and Setting …

OBJECTIVE: To examine whether the prestige of a journal, measured by its impact factor,
influences the numbers of citations obtained by published articles, independently of their …

Introduction: The journal impact factor is often used to judge the scientific quality of
individual research articles and individual journals. Despite numerous reviews in the …

Background: Point-of-care (POC) products are widely used as information reference tools in
the clinical setting. Although usability, scope of coverage, ability to answer clinical questions …