Crossing the Death Valley of publication process in cornea and ocular surface diseases: from abstracts presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting to full-text manuscripts / Atravessando o Vale da Morte do processo de publicação sobre doenças da córnea e da superfície ocular: de resumos apresentados no Encontro Anual da Associação de Pesquisa em Visão e Oftalmologia até artigos completos

ABSTRACT Purpose: This study was conducted to analyze the profile and publication rate of abstracts in indexed journals presented in the cornea section at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting and to further identify potential predictive factors for better outcomes. Methods: Abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2013 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting in the cornea section were sought via PubMed and Scopus to identify whether they had been published as full-text manuscripts. First author's name, time of publication, journal's name, and impact factor were recorded. A multivariate regression was performed to explore the association between variables and both the likelihood of publication and the journal's impact factor. A Kaplan-Meier analysis was performed to evaluate the time course of publication of abstracts. Results: Of the 939 analyzed abstracts, 360 (38.3%) were published in journals with a median impact factor of 3.4. The median time interval between abstract submission and article publication was 22 months. The multivariate analysis revealed that abstracts were more likely to be published if they were funded (OR=1.482, p=0.005), had a control group (OR=1.511, p=0.016), and had a basic science research scope (OR=1.388, p=0.020). The journal's impact factor was higher in funded studies (β=0.163, p=0.002) but lower in multicenter studies (β=-0.170, p=0.001). The Kaplan-Meier analyses revealed significant differences in the publication time distribution for basic science vs clinical abstracts (χ2=7.636), controlled vs uncontrolled studies (χ2=6.921), and funded vs unfunded research (χ2=13.892) (p<0.05). Conclusion: Almost 40% of Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology abstracts were published within 5 years from submission. Funding support, basic research scope, and controlled design were the determinants of better outcomes of publication.(AU)

RESUMO Objetivo: Analisar o perfil e a taxa de publicação em periódicos indexados de resumos apresentados na seção de córnea da reunião anual da Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology - ARVO, para identificar potenciais fatores preditivos com objetivo de obter melhores resultados. Métodos: Artigos que foram aceitos para apresentação no encontro anual da Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology - ARVO 2013 na seção de córnea foram pesquisados via PubMed e Scopus para identificar se haviam sido publicados como manuscritos com texto integral. Nome do primeiro autor, data de publicação, nome da revista e fator de impacto foram registrados. Foi feita uma regressão multivariada para estabelecer uma associação entre as variáveis e a chance de publicação e o fator de impacto da revista. Foi utilizado o método Kaplan-Meier para analisar o tempo da apresentação até a publicação dos artigos. Resultados: Dos 939 artigos analisados, 360 (38.3%) foram publicados em revistas com um fator de impacto médio de 3.4. O intervalo de tempo entre a submissão do resumo e a publicação do artigo teve como mediana 22 meses. Na análise multivariada, resumos tinham mais chance de publicação se tinham algum tipo de financiamento (OR=1.482, p=0.005), tinham grupo controle (OR=1.511, p=0.016) e estavam no âmbito da pesquisa científica básica (OR+1.388, p=0.020). O fator de impacto da revista era maior em estudos financiados (β=0.163, p=0.002) e mais baixo naqueles multicêntricos (β=-0.170, p=0.001). A análise Kaplan-Meier mostrou diferenças significativas na distribuição de tempo até a publicação de resumos de ciência básica vs clínicos (χ2=7.636), com grupo controle vs sem grupo controle (χ2=6.921) e financiados vs não financiados (χ2=13.892) (p<0.05). Conclusão: Aproximadamente 40% dos resumos apresentados no encontro da Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology - ARVO foram publicados dentro de 5 anos da submissão. Financiamento, pesquisa no âmbito da ciência básica e presença de grupo controle foram fatores determinantes para melhores resultados em relação à chance de publicação.(AU)

Cooperação Ipea-Bireme: interoperabilidade de sistemas para a disseminação de informação em saúde / Ipea-Bireme cooperation: system interoperability for dissemination of health information / Cooperación Ipea-Bireme: interoperabilidad de sistemas para difusión de información de salud

O objetivo deste texto é descrever e discutir a experiência de cooperação entre o Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea) e o Centro Latino-Americano e do Caribe de Informação em Ciências da Saúde (Bireme) para a interoperabilidade de seus sistemas de informação, com vistas à indexação da produção em saúde do Ipea às bases de dados de literatura científica mantidas pela Bireme, fomentando assim a disseminação do conhecimento produzido pelo instituto nesta área. Conclui-se, a partir da análise desta iniciativa, que o seu sucesso é devido ao comprometimento das equipes, as quais conformaram acordos de cooperação nos níveis técnico, de conteúdo e organizacional, requisitos estes apontados pela literatura científica sobre o assunto como determinantes para seu êxito.

The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss the experience of cooperation between the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea) and the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (Bireme) for the interoperability of their information systems, to index the health production of Ipea to the databases of scientific literature maintained by Bireme, thus promoting the dissemination of the knowledge produced by the institute in this area. It is concluded, from the analysis of this initiative, that its success is due to the commitment of the teams, which formed cooperation agreements at the technical, content and organizational levels, requirements that are pointed out by the scientific literature on the subject as determinants for its success.

El objetivo de este documento es describir y discutir la experiencia de cooperación entre el Instituto de Investigación Económica Aplicada (IPEA) y el Centro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Información en Ciencias de la Salud (Bireme) para la interoperabilidad de sus sistemas de información, con el objetivo de indexar la producción de salud de Ipea a las bases de datos de literatura científica mantenidas por Bireme, promoviendo así la difusión del conocimiento producido por el instituto en esta área. Se concluye, a partir del análisis de esta iniciativa, que su éxito se debe al compromiso de los equipos, que formaron acuerdos de cooperación a nivel técnico, de contenido y organizacional, requisitos que la literatura científica señala sobre el tema como determinantes para su éxito.

Comparison of Intellectual Structure of Knowledge in International Journal of Preventive Medicine with MeSH: A Co-Word Analysis.

BACKGROUND: The aim of the current study is to determine the Comparison of intellectual structure of International Journal of Preventive Medicine (IJPM) with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) based on author keywords and index terms of Scopus database and the degree of compatibility among these two groups of keywords. METHODS: This study was carried out using a co-word technique, which is one of the bibliometric methods. The study population consisted of 1104 articles published in IJPM and indexed in Scopus database. After retrieval the articles, data for co-word analyses was extracted using UCINET and VOSviewer software applications and centrality criteria. Then, the compatibility of author keywords and MeSH terms was examined by Jaccard's similarity index. RESULTS: During the investigated years and among 2402 author keywords, on average, 561 author keywords (23.36%) were exact matches, 417 author keywords (17.36%) were partial matches, and 1424 author keywords (59.28%) were not matched with the terms contained in the index. Author keywords matching or not matching with index-term categories formed the largest portion of partial match keywords. CONCLUSIONS: The use of MeSH as a standard tool by medical journals for the selection of keywords in scientific publications could improve the visibility and retrieval of articles, and increase the number of citations and journals' impact factor.

Caminhos da internacionalização dos periódicos de saúde coletiva / Pathways for the internationalization of public health journals

RESUMO Esse texto teve como objetivo apresentar caminhos para que o meio editorial em saúde coletiva incremente a visibilidade das revistas brasileiras no exterior. Sinteticamente, essas medidas são: publicação dos artigos em inglês; indexação dos periódicos nas principais bases de dados internacionais (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science etc.); inclusão das revistas nos repositórios on-line internacionais (SciELO, PMC, Europe PMC etc.); adoção de sistema de gestão editorial em inglês, permitindo a comunicação entre autores, editores e revisores de diferentes países; adoção de licença de direitos de cópia, permitindo a divulgação dos artigos publicados em repositórios individuais e institucionais. Muitas dessas sugestões já vêm sendo implantadas, e várias revistas no Brasil já avançaram no trajeto assinalado. Essas diretrizes implicam custos adicionais e empenho editorial. A produção de uma revista científica com impacto internacional não deveria ser responsabilidade apenas dos editores e dos autores. É fundamental que as agências de fomento à pesquisa criem fontes sustentáveis de financiamento e de internacionalização para as revistas brasileiras de reconhecido mérito.

ABSTRACT The objective of this text was to explore how public health journals edited in Brazil can increase their international impact. Synthetically, the following measures were proposed: the publication of articles in English; the indexing of journals in the leading international databases (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science etc.); the inclusion of journals in international online repositories (SciELO, PMC, Europe PMC etc.); the adoption of editorial a management system allowing for the communication in English between authors, editors and reviewers from different countries; the adoption of copyrights allowing for free access of the articles, and their distribution in individual and institutional repositories. Several journals in Brazil have already implemented many of these suggestions. These guidelines imply additional costs and editorial commitment. The production of a scientific journal with international impact should not be the responsibility of editors and authors alone. Governmental agencies for funding research should provide sustainable sources to support the internationalization of Brazilian journals with recognized merit.

Demography of Medical Journals in Iran; a Cross-Sectional Study.

INTRODUCTION: Policymaking in order to increase the quality of medical journals needs having accurate data from their current status. OBJECTIVE: The present study was designed with the aim of introducing a demographic scheme of Iranian journals in the field of medical sciences. METHOD: This cross-sectional study was performed on all the medical journals being published in Iran in 2016. The list of all journal titles was extracted by referring to the medical journals databanks (ministry of health, Magiran, IranMedex, Irandoc and…), and the data required for the study were gathered using journals' homepages or by phone or in person, by attending the journal's office. RESULTS: Totally, 521 journals were assessed. Publication language used was English in 297 (57%) journals and 515 (98.85%) were open access. 381 (73.1%) journals were published quarterly and the year of starting publication was 2010 onwards in case of 245 (48.0%) of journals. There were 29 (5.56%) journals, which were indexed in all 3 databases of ISI, PubMed and Scopus. Only 4.81% of the journals had an official impact factor announced by Thomson-Reuters or Clarivate Analytics Company. Mean time needed for review of articles was 1.89 ± 1.52 (0.5 - 12) months (n = 146) and mean time interval between accepting an article and its print or electronic publication was 3.63 ± 2.17 (0 - 12) months (n = 144). Rate of membership of these journals in COPE and ICMJE were 40% and 27%, respectively. CONCLUSION: Most medical journals being published in Iran were English quarterly journals that were regularly published in the fields of general medicine, open access, with university affiliations, centered in the capital, and more than 80% of them had started publishing from 2000 and afterwards.

[Citation analysis of the Hungarian-language Orvosi Hetilap based on indicators between 2012 and 2016]. / Az Orvosi Hetilap idézetelemzése mutatószámok alapján 2012 és 2016 között.

INTRODUCTION: After getting indexed by scientific databases - Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports - the obtained scientific performance of the journal needs to be kept up. AIM: The aim of this article is to analyse citation numbers based on different bibliometric indicators between 2012 and 2016 comparing data with an article published in 2012. METHOD: Authors evaluated issues of Orvosi Hetilap published in 2013-2015 and searched data in various international databases. Number of citations, quality of citing journals were analysed based on the official 2015-2016 impact factor of Orvosi Hetilap. Scientific performance of the journal was evaluated according to data of SCImago webpage and Scopus database as well. RESULTS: The official 2016 impact factor of Orvosi Hetilap is 0,349 which is the highest value compared with the previous factors. The articles of Orvosi Hetilap are cited by international authors and high impact factor journals, too. Further, more than half of the publications cited are open access. The most frequently cited categories are original and review articles, and case reports. Scientific performance of Orvosi Hetilap is promising according to indicators of SCImago webpage and Scopus database. Mean self-citation rate of the journal is about 30%. Its h-index is 7 in Web of Science Core Collection, and 19 in Scopus database. CONCLUSIONS: Citation analysis of this article shows that citation numbers and various bibliometric indicators can increase in a short period, but drastic changes can only happen in a long period with keeping and pushing the obtained values, and focusing on the further development of the journal. Orv Hetil. 2018; 159(30): 1226-1234.

Mapping the literature of pediatric nursing: update and implications for library services.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to identify core journals and other types of literature cited in four major pediatric nursing journals and to characterize coverage of these resources in major bibliographic databases. The study was part of the "Mapping the Literature of Nursing Project" of the Medical Library Association's Nursing and Allied Health Resource Section. It updates a similar analysis published in 2006 and determines whether citation patterns have changed over time. METHODS: Cited references from articles published in 4 pediatric nursing journals between 2011 and 2013 were collected. Cited journal titles were ranked according to number of times cited and analyzed according to Bradford's Law of Scattering and the 80/20 rule to identify the most frequently cited journals. Five databases were surveyed to assess the coverage of the most-often-cited journals. The most frequently cited non-journal sources were also identified. RESULTS: Journals were the most frequently cited sources, followed by books, government documents, Internet resources, and miscellaneous resources. Most cited sources were cited within ten years of their publication, which was particularly true for government documents and Internet resources. Scopus had complete coverage of the most frequently cited journals, whereas PubMed had nearly complete coverage. CONCLUSIONS: Compared with the 2006 study, the list of top-cited journals referenced by pediatric nursing researchers has remained relatively stable, but the number of cited journal titles has increased. Book citations have declined, and Internet and government document references have increased. These findings suggest that librarians should retain subscriptions to frequently cited journal titles, provide efficient document delivery of articles from infrequently used journals, de-emphasize but not eliminate books, and connect patrons with useful open-access Internet resources.

Specialist Bibliographic Databases.

Specialist bibliographic databases offer essential online tools for researchers and authors who work on specific subjects and perform comprehensive and systematic syntheses of evidence. This article presents examples of the established specialist databases, which may be of interest to those engaged in multidisciplinary science communication. Access to most specialist databases is through subscription schemes and membership in professional associations. Several aggregators of information and database vendors, such as EBSCOhost and ProQuest, facilitate advanced searches supported by specialist keyword thesauri. Searches of items through specialist databases are complementary to those through multidisciplinary research platforms, such as PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. Familiarizing with the functional characteristics of biomedical and nonbiomedical bibliographic search tools is mandatory for researchers, authors, editors, and publishers. The database users are offered updates of the indexed journal lists, abstracts, author profiles, and links to other metadata. Editors and publishers may find particularly useful source selection criteria and apply for coverage of their peer-reviewed journals and grey literature sources. These criteria are aimed at accepting relevant sources with established editorial policies and quality controls.

Specialist Bibliographic Databases

Specialist bibliographic databases offer essential online tools for researchers and authors who work on specific subjects and perform comprehensive and systematic syntheses of evidence. This article presents examples of the established specialist databases, which may be of interest to those engaged in multidisciplinary science communication. Access to most specialist databases is through subscription schemes and membership in professional associations. Several aggregators of information and database vendors, such as EBSCOhost and ProQuest, facilitate advanced searches supported by specialist keyword thesauri. Searches of items through specialist databases are complementary to those through multidisciplinary research platforms, such as PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. Familiarizing with the functional characteristics of biomedical and nonbiomedical bibliographic search tools is mandatory for researchers, authors, editors, and publishers. The database users are offered updates of the indexed journal lists, abstracts, author profiles, and links to other metadata. Editors and publishers may find particularly useful source selection criteria and apply for coverage of their peer-reviewed journals and grey literature sources. These criteria are aimed at accepting relevant sources with established editorial policies and quality controls.

Survey of keyword adjustment of published articles medical subject headings in journal of mazandaran university of medical sciences (2009-2010).

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: NONE DECLARED. INTRODUCTION: Keywords are the most important tools for Information retrieval. They are usually used for retrieval of articles based on contents of information reserved from printed and electronic resources. Retrieval of appropriate keywords from Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) can impact with exact, correctness and short time on information retrieval. Regarding the above mentioned matters, this study was done to compare the Latin keywords was in the articles published in the Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. METHOD: This is a descriptive study. The data were extracted from the key words of Englsih abstracts of articles published in the years 2009-2010 in the Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences by census method. Checklist of data collection is designed, based on research objectives and literature review which has face validity. Compliance rate in this study was to determine if the keywords cited in this article as a full subject of the main subject headings in a MeSH (Bold and the selected word) is a perfect adjustment. If keywords were cited in the article but the main heading is not discussed in the following main topics to be discussed with reference to See and See related it has considered has partial adjustment. RESULTS: Out of 148 articles published in 12 issues in proposed time of studying, 72 research papers were analyzed. The average numbers of authors in each article were 4 ± 1. Results showed that most of specialty papers 42 (58. 4%), belonging to the (Department of Clinical Sciences) School of Medicine, 11 (15.3%) Basic Science, 6(8.4%) Pharmacy, Nursing and Midwifery 5(6.9%), 4(5.5%) Health, paramedical Sciences 3(4.2%), and non medical article 1(1.3%) school of medicine. In general, results showed that 80 (30%) of key words have been used to complete the adjustment. Also, only 1(1.4%) had complete adjustment with all the MeSH key words and in 8 articles(11.4%) key words of had no adjustment with MeSH. CONCLUSION: The results showed that only 17 articles could be retrieved if the search words are selected from the MeSH. In this case the expected 100% of published articles titles at this university the validity of exchange of research projects which is something noteworthy. The lack of correlation between number of authors and matching of Keywords with MeSH, may mean all of the papers' authors did not take part in writing and it is understanding that only one author wrote the paper.

Brazilian Scientific Journals in Surgery: quality control in the abstract structure of non-experimental articles

PURPOSE: To evaluate the quality of abstracts of original non-experimental research articles in Brazilian Journals in Surgery. METHODS: Convenience sample of 471 abstracts of original research articles from six Brazilian surgical journals indexed in Thomson Reuters (ISI) Web of Knowledge. The quality of abstracts was measured against a checklist of eight evaluation criteria, which were divided into 32 categories. The total score for each abstract was obtained by summing the score of all criteria present. The overall mean score was also determined. RESULTS: The overall mean score of abstract quality was that of a good abstract. Most of the abstracts contained some information from each of the eight basic categories of an abstract. All abstracts were structured ones. CONCLUSION: The overall quality, for abstracts of original articles of six Brazilian non-experimental journals in surgery, was classified as good.

Evaluation of the key words used in articles of the Acta Cirurgica Brasileira from 1997 to 2012 / Avaliação dos descritores utilizados nos artigos da Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira de 1997 a 2012

PURPOSE: To evaluate the key words used in Acta Cirurgica Brasileira from 1997 to 2012. METHODS: All the key words of all articles published in regular issues between 1997 and 2012 were analyzed, ensuring that these key words were in the MeSH database (Medical Subjects Headings) and the most used subject headings and most wrong repeated key words were ranked. RESULTS: > 4230 key words used in 990 articles were analyzed. Only 579 key words (13.68%) were not in the MeSH database, considering that there was a statistically significant decrease over the years (p<0.001). The three most used key words were Rats, Dogs and Wound healing. Among the wrong ones, the key words were Adhesions, Experimental surgery and Anatomosis. CONCLUSION: There was a gradual improvement in the amount of key words used that belonged to the MeSH database, and there were 618 articles (62.42%) with all key words correct.

OBJETIVO: Avaliar os descritores utilizados na Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira entre os anos de 1997 até 2012. MÉTODOS: Foram analisados os descritores de todos os artigos publicados em fascículos regulares entre os anos de 1997 a 2012, verificando se estes constavam no MeSH e foi feito um ranking dos descritores mais utilizados e dos termos equivocados mais repetidos. RESULTADOS: Foram analisados 4230 descritores, presentes em 990 artigos. Apenas 579 (13,68%) dos descritores estavam fora da base do MeSH, sendo que houve uma diminuição estatisticamente significante com o passar dos anos (p<0.001). Os três descritores mais utilizados foram Rats, Dogs e Wound healing, já dentre as equivocadas foram os termos Adhesions, Experimental surgery e Anatomosis. CONCLUSÃO: Houve uma melhora progressiva na quantidade de termos utilizados que pertenciam a base do MeSH, havendo 618 artigos (62,42%) com todos os descritores corretos.

Los lenguajes de indización en e-Salud: su aplicación a los documentos sobre trastornos de la conducta alimentaria / Indexing languages in e-Health: applications for documents about eating disorders

La presencia cada vez mayor de las bases de datos especializadas y su uso generalizado, así como las posibilidades de difusión que las nuevas tecnologías ofrecen, obliga a un análisis pertinente de los documentos. Los lenguajes de indización nacen a raíz del crecimiento de la información generado por la revolución científica, como una forma rápida y normalizada de procesar, almacenar y recuperar los contenidos documentales. Este trabajo examina las características y ventajas de los lenguajes documentales en la era digital describiendo ejemplos de tesauros, y sus correspondientes relaciones jerárquicas, aplicados a los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria.

The increased presence and widespread use of specialized databases, as well as the possibilities for distribution offered by new technologies, require a pertinent method for analyzing documents. Indexing languages emerge from the information growth generated by the scientific revolution as a quick, standardized way to process, store and retrieve document contents. This paper examines the characteristics and advantages of documentary languages in the digital age, describing examples of thesauri and their corresponding hierarchical relationships as applied to eating disorders.

Mais um passo importante da Scientia Medica: [editorial] / One further important step for Scientia Medica: [editorial]

É com satisfação que comunicamos aos usuários da Scientia Medica, especialmente aos autores que a prestigiam com a publicação de seus trabalhos, que a revista foi indexada na Scopus. Essa base de dados, oficialmente denominada SciVerse Scopus e pertencente ao grupo editorial Elsevier, é a maior base indexadora de resumos e citações da literatura científica revisada por pares.

A importância da inclusão do termo sistema musculoaponeurótico superficial nos descritores em ciências da saúde e na terminologia anatômica internacional / Importance to include the term superficial musculoaponeurotic system in medical subject headings and in the international anatomical nomenclature

PURPOSE: To investigate the relevance of the term superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS) and demonstrate that this term is important enough to be added to the MeSH database and listed in International Anatomical Nomenclature. METHODS: Terms related to SMAS were selected from original articles retrieved from the ISI Web of Science and MEDLINE (PubMed) databases. Groups of terms were created to define a search strategy with high-sensitivity and restricted to scientific periodicals devoted to plastic surgery. This study included articles between January 1996 and May 2009, whose titles, abstracts, and keywords were searched for SMAS-related terms and all occurrences were recorded. RESULTS: A total of 126 original articles were retrieved from the main periodicals related to plastic surgery in the referred databases. Of these articles, 51.6 percent had SMAS-related terms in the abstract only, and 25.4 percent had SMAS-related terms in both the title and abstract. The term 'superficial musculoaponeurotic system' was present as a keyword in 19.8 percent of the articles. The most frequent terms were 'SMAS' (71.4 percent) and superficial musculoaponeurotic system (62.7 percent). CONCLUSION: The term SMAS refers to a structure relevant enough to start a discussion about indexing it as a keyword and as an official term in Terminologia Anatomica: International Anatomical Terminology.

OBJETIVO: Investigar a relevância do termo sistema musculoaponeurótico superficial (SMAS) para propor a sua indicação para indexação como palavra-chave e inclusão na Terminologia Anatômica Internacional. MÉTODOS: Termos relacionados ao SMAS foram recuperados de artigos originais identificados por mapeamento automático nas bases ISI Web Of Science e MEDLINE (PubMed). Os termos foram agrupados a fim de formar uma estratégia de busca de alta sensibilidade, limitada a periódicos exclusivos da especialidade de Cirurgia Plástica. Destes periódicos, foram selecionados artigos publicados de janeiro de 1996 a maio de 2009. Avaliou-se o título, resumo e as palavras-chaves, computando-se todas as ocorrências de termos relacionadas ao SMAS. RESULTADOS: Recuperou-se um total de 126 artigos originais de periódicos relevantes, especializados em cirurgia plástica, e indexados nas bases mencionadas. Destes artigos, 51,6 por cento apresentavam termos relacionados com SMAS somente no resumo, e 25,4 por cento apresentavam termos relacionados com SMAS no título e resumo. O termo sistema musculoaponeurótico superficial estava presente como descritor em 19,8 por cento dos artigos. As ocorrências mais freqüentes foram SMAS (71,4 por cento) e sistema musculoaponeurótico superficial (62,7 por cento). CONCLUSÃO: O termo SMAS, referente à estrutura em estudo, apresentou relevância suficiente para ser indexado como palavra-chave e listado na Terminologia Anatômica Internacional.

Coincidence Analysis of Key Words and MeSH Terms in the Journal of The Korean Society of Emergency Medicine

PURPOSE: Keywords describe the medical concepts of articles in the medical literature. They provide many benefits to those creating databases, to indexers who are cross-indexing scientific articles, and to users by providing easy access to sources. Hence, it is important for authors to choose keywords that are accurate and that correspond to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). The objectives of this study were to investigate whether English keywords used in the Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine (KJEM) coincide with MeSH terms, and to understand the major errors in MeSH term selection. METHODS: To analyze how accurately authors of KJEM use MeSH terms, keywords provided by authors (author terms) were compared with terms listed in the corresponding MeSH browser. We analyzed keywords from 356 articles of the KJEM that were published between 2005 and 2006 and between 2008 and 2009. We investigated frequently used keywords and what percentage of keywords agree with MeSH terms using the MeSH browser. RESULTS: A total of 1,153 author terms were used as keywords in the 356 KJEM articles. There were on average 5.91 authors and 3.24 keywords per article. The keywords that appeared most frequently (in descending order) were cardiac arrest, emergency medical services, ultrasonography, emergency department (medicine), and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The number of terms in precise agreement with MeSH headings was 584 (50.7%); 260 terms (22.5%) were not found in the MeSH browser;60 terms (5.2%) had only a trivial difference from MeSH terms; 203 terms (17.6%) including entry terms, and 46 terms (4.0%) matched MeSH subheadings. CONCLUSION: Many keywords used in the KJEM did not agree with MeSH terms. We conclude that medical authors should be educated in the proper use of MeSH terms in their research and subsequent publication.

Una mirada epistemométrica de la Revista Médica de Chile y su aporte al conocimiento en Medicina / A scientometric view of Revista Médica de Chile

Background: During the last decade Revista Médica de Chile increased its visibility, measured on citations and impact factor. Aim: To perform a scientometric analysis to assess the performance of Revista Médica de Chile. Material and methods: Thomson's-ISI Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports QCR) were consulted for performance indicators of Revista Médica de Chile and Latin Amerícan journals whose subject is General and Internal Medicine. We also report the h-index of the journal, which infers quality ¡inked to the quantity of the output. Results: According to the h-index, Revista Médica de Chile ranks 4 among the 36 journals indexed and published by Argentina, Brazil, Chile and México. The top ten articles published by Revista Médica de Chile and the institutions with the higher contríbution to the journal, were identified using citations. In the Latin Amerícan región, Brazil relevantly increased its scientific output. However, Argentina, Chile and México maintain a plateau during the last decade. Conclusions: Revista Médica de Chile increased notoriously its performance. Its contríbution to the Chilean scientific community dedicated to Medicine appears to be of central value.

Validity of death certificates for coding coronary heart disease as the cause of death in Bahrain

This study aimed to examine the accuracy of death certificates for coding coronary heart disease [CHD] as the underlying cause of death in Bahrain. Of the 1714 deaths occurring in Bahrain in 1993, 371 were classified as resulting from CHD. In this study the hospital diagnosis of 109 deaths [52 as CHD and 57 as other causes] were reviewed and re-diagnosed using hospital records. The coding of 459 death certificates [151 as CHD and 308 as other causes] by the Directorate of Public Health was similarly reviewed. The sensitivity and specificity of the hospital diagnosis were 76% and 72% respectively and those of the Directorate of Public Health were 85% and 89% respectively. National mortality statistics in Bahrain, which are based on death certificate data, may overestimate the frequency of CHD. Therefore, it is important that measures are taken to improve the accuracy of certification