Malgré la complexité des formules qui visent à déterminer la qualité des publications
médicales, le processus d'évaluation est fondamentalement subjectif. Pour cet éditorial …

Tout le monde aimerait pouvoir se fier à un classe-ment réellement objectif pour établir la
pertinence des articles publiés dans la littérature médicale. Le milieu scientifique en est …

Despite the development of protocols to improve medical research, the determination of a
research report's importance still relies on intuition as much as adherence to guidelines. 1 It …

Focuses on the infallibility of peer review process in the attribution of scientific merit to
evaluate medical research. Guide to the importance of a piece of work; Challenge of the use …

The scientific journal impact factor, developed and owned by the Institute for Scientific
Information (ISI) was first mentioned in Science in 1955 by Eugene Garfield, and first applied …

What does an impactful article mean? In the current context these words usually draw one's
attention to Journal Impact factors. Based on set formulae, these reflect the ability of the …

“Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that counts can be counted.”
William Bruce Cameron Journal metrics mania started over 50 years ago with the impact …

Professional scientific societies are under increasing pressure from medical faculties and
other institutions to prepare and justify well-founded assessment scales for publications in …

Quantitative assessment of the scientific merit of journals is being used increasingly. The
idea of an 'impact'was first mentioned by Dr. Garfield as a reference counting in 1955 [1] …

The article offers suggestions to surgical trainees and academic surgeons who want to
publish their research on how to respond to the reviewer's comments after submission of …