Background: A number of medical journals have developed policies for accelerated
publication of articles judged by the authors, the editors or the peer reviewers to be of …

Speed of publication can be used as an indicator for estimating the publication efficiency of
journals. We aimed to assess whether median acceptance, publication and total times …

Five times during the past year, the Journal has released articles early by posting them on
our site on the World Wide Web (http://www. nejm. org). The decision to release an article …

Background Publication of clinical research findings in prominent journals influences health
beliefs and medical practice, in part by engendering news coverage. Randomized controlled …

Objective: Timely publication of data is important for the medical community and provides a
valuable contribution to data disclosure. The objective of this study was to identify and …

136 articles Page 1 Does publication with open access enhance article impact? Fran Young ,1
Jürgen Wiehn ,2 David Gothard 3 and Eric Southam 3 1Shire, Lexington, MA, USA; 2Shire …

Background We conducted this analysis to determine i) which journals publish high-quality,
clinically relevant studies in internal medicine, general/family practice, general practice …

Rationale and Objectives This study aimed to assess the most common publication types in
radiology journals, as well as temporal trends and association with citation frequency …

Objective: To identify characteristics of submitted manuscripts that are associated with
acceptance for publication by major biomedical journals. Design, setting and participants: A …

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 …