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Russia's greatest love machine  Joined: 09 Jul 2009 Posts: 752 Location: The wrong place    votes: 6 View user's profile |
pedal2000 wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpe1u4cKbTk Hey look, the girl with the psychogenic disorder was cured by the placebo effect! Incredible!
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Jimmy Big Ears wrote: What's number one, the British Medical Journal?
In terms of general medical journals, it goes: New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet, BMJ. Impact factor can be a bit misleading for a journal like The Lancet because it has such a wide international readership, but it is pretty highly regarded. |
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X-talk mobster  Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 3256 Location: St. Francis Xavier University  votes: 38 View user's profile |
So it's normally ok but stories like this pop up now and again? I would have thought BMJ was higher because it's the oldest (I think) but the group seems about right. Of course, that only covers the English-speaking world. _________________ "Ah, sleek vigilant puma. Principal of the mountains." -Seymour Skinner. |
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Basically, yeah. It has a reputation for printing things that are controversial and/or statistically questionable but the vast majority of the science is good. In terms of the impact factor, a lot of it depends on readership. BMJ has gone partially open access to help bring readership up so that might change in the next few years. English-speaking journals are at the top but impact factor puts them all together regardless of language, but there are some very highly ranked European and Scandinavian journals as well. It's just one way of measuring quality, though. |
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Jimmy Big Ears
X-talk mobster Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 3256 Location: St. Francis Xavier University votes: 38 View user's profile |
Those also might be the top ones partially because the Germans and Scandinavians can read English quite well, and some may publish English versions. Being in English-speaking North America we tend to tune out the other stuff a bit. It'll be interesting if (and when) Indian and Chinese medical journals start being higher-impact. _________________ "Ah, sleek vigilant puma. Principal of the mountains." -Seymour Skinner. |
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It's more of a status quo type thing...the top journals have been the top journals for a long time, so researchers who don't speak English as a first language feel compelled to publish in them. There are plenty of poorly translated articles going in every direction. In medical/health research it's just about impossible to just ignore what's coming out of other parts of the world though. India is already pretty good in terms of health research and reputable journals, but China is an interesting case because of the concerns about academic freedom there. |
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