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miss-biophys · 1 year
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3 years, 3 months, and 20 days went by until I could finally hit this button.
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My big postdoctoral research story is out of my hands. 
I popped a champagne today.
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roadki-ll · 2 years
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Best time I was cited as a source
So a few years back I volunteered at a library summer reading program when I was back home for the summer in collage . Kids would come in and tell me about books they read and some of the older kids knew I went to collage and that I was a science major which made me really cool because I was going to become a SCIENTIST . And one day there’s a kid talking with his dad about a book he’d read in the children’s section about plants and how they work and the dad is saying “plants use carbon MONOXIDE because that’s what we exhale ” and the kid says “No dad it’s Carbon DIOXIDE” and the dad say something like “I’m not a scientist but I am an adult so I think I know what I’m talking about” so the kid drags him over to me and says “Well I know a REAL SCIENTIST I can ask” and I just look the dad dead in the eye and says “ Carbon Dioxide is what we exhale and what plants inhale, Carbon Monoxide is what you have detectors in you house for.” The dad was a good sport about it and the kid was beaming and I think that will always be one of the best times I have ever been used as a primary source.
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susidestroyerofworlds · 9 months
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tumblr, help me out:
good free scientific journal for biology, physics, and mathematics
i need to be more up to date on the things that matter to me, like exoplanets being found or new breakthroughs in the behavioural study of hermit crabs. I want to know when there is a potential solution to the Einstein problem and not absorb it through memes
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© Paolo Dala
A Study In Sewers
I got a Facebook Message from the former chair of the University of the Philippines(UPLB) Los Baños' Department of Civil Engineering, (who was also my undergraduate thesis adviser). I was really surprised to be getting message from her because the last time I spoke to her was during my Civil Engineering Oath-taking back in 2016... I read her message and found out that the UPLB Civil Engineering Department will be submitting a scientific paper for publication and my undergraduate thesis (which I wrote 6 years ago) will be part of that paper... And after over a year of reviewing and revising, it has published in the Environmental Quality Management.
...going through the process of this publication has bring back all the bitter and the sweet memories from my undergraduate thesis days. Those days were some the days of my life. The anxiety and depression I experienced during that time was the worst in my life...
The university funded my undergraduate thesis in the amount of PhP 150,000.00. There was so much pressure for me to succeed in the experimentation. Add to that, it was already my 8th year in school. I was already 1 semester over the maximum time to finish my degree. The Dean actually warned me that if I didn't graduate that semester, I won't be getting any extension and I would be dismissed from the university... And the experiment was difficult itself. The treatment process was from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm. I had to wake up at 4:30 am everyday because I had to be at the laboratory at 5:30 am... It was also very disgusting! Collecting the wastewater was not only tiring, it was also degrading.
During that time I was averaging like hours of sleep daily. I would finish the lab works at past 6 in the evening then do data analysis until 12 midnight. When I lie down to sleep after that, the anxiety and depression would eat me up. And I'll just lie there in my bed thinking thinking of the future where I fail to graduate and become a Civil Engineer. And there was really a time when I decided I don't do it anymore. I didn't want to wake up at 4:30 and deal with the disgusting wastewater. I remember I even started searching fall Center Jobs because I was already seeing that my dismissal from the University... I think it was all by God's Grace that go through with this. I for sure didn't know where I found the strength to do it. Everytime I wanted to quit my dream of being an engineer working in the water sector, I didn't see any door being opened by God. I got this feeling that this was the only door I that God wants me to walk through. And the words of II Thessalonians 5:24:
He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.
...and just before I end this post, I would like to give my deepest gratitude to all the men and women who directly and in directly help me finish my undergraduate thesis... I had to review the Acknowledgement Section of my thesis. I don't think I've messaged and personally thank these people, so I have posted excerpts of the my 'Acknowledgements'... I'm sorry for being 7 years late in thanking you, but I am forever grateful. I dedicate my my authorship in this journal article to all of you.
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tenth-sentence · 10 months
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An analogue to this silencing and stigmatization exists in the pages of zoology journals, monographs, and textbooks, and in the wider scientific discourse.
"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl
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cyborg-hephaestus · 10 months
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February 19th, 1998
Our recent fray with Sarah Ellis has left my arsenal and our supplies relatively low: I've been working to replenish our stores with sunlight grenades and healing boosters, not to mention giving Louis some ballistic weave: he took some heavy blows during our fight with the Gentlemen, I figure he should be well-protected.
Margin notes: Maybe make one for Quentin too? Holy water armor useful, but only against vampires: keep in mind.
As for my current weapon loadout, I've come to a realization: my cesium launcher, useful though it is, has drawbacks. It can cause collateral damage, it's attention-grabbing, and it's extremely imprecise: I need something else for fighting vampires.
Thankfully, I have an idea: I heard the story about Miss Ruby from my friends, about how she killed a vampire in her club by giving him holy water disguised as a drink. That's a relatively small amount of holy water, but it still burned and vaporized him on the spot: just like with normal humans, it seems internal damage is much more effective with vampires than external. While I can't convince a vampire to drink holy water in the middle of a fight, I CAN deliver it into their body with a hypodermic, given that their skin is as easily penetrable as human skin. I've developed an attachment for my launcher that uses darts instead of pellets, and I've filled those darts with holy water. If my calculations are correct (and I believe they are), it'll actually be a more effective damager than the cesium.
Of course, this has pros and cons: it'll only be effective against something that is affected by holy water, a weakness that isn't as common as it should be. That being said, as long as the darts can be filled with liquid, they can be useful for delivering a payload of my enemy's weaknesses: it's a versatile weapon. That'll be my new main ranged weapon: I'll save the cesium launcher for emergencies and big-gun situations.
(Margin notes: definition of "big-gun situation" needs clarification. Will develop threat ranking system after careful research, deliberation, and classification: remember to ask Quentin and Miss Rosemont for assistance. Possibly Miss Cavendish too, once she's out of hospital.)
I've also begun studies on the spatial anomaly I've discovered in my room: it seems to defy most classifications as we know them. There have been theories about things like this: a space-time anomaly that utilizes warp field physics and null-temporal mechanics. They've been theorized to hell and back, but this is the first proof I've ever seen that they really exist. Obviously, I need to do as much research as possible, but even my initial research has given me intriguing insights: simply put, the anomaly exists in a state of flux unlike the space-time around it, allowing it to be freely changed when exposed to low-level particle manipulation. What's more, when I analyzed its properties and applied Zedillo's Equation, it became clear that it's possible to replicate these properties, thus allowing for the potential to freely "strengthen" or "weaken" space-time itself!
This opens up so many new avenues of invention: artificial gravity or anti-gravity, teleportation, force fields (that one in particular seems like a good place to start), and that's only the beginning! If my theories are sound, it's entirely possible I could go so far as DIMENSIONAL TRAVEL, making it theoretically possible to confirm MULTIVERSE THEORY: this could be one of the biggest technological and scientific leaps forward in human history, and it's IN. MY. ROOM.
(Margin notes: drink water and take deep breaths. Maybe some Ativan too, while I'm at it.)
But even outside of all of that, this anomaly and the possibilities it provides have given me a thought: we've fought some nasty things in our time here at Mossvale, but there's one thing we've never overcome, something we're trying to avoid. HIM. Whatever he was, he was powerful, more than anything else we've seen, anything we've read about.
What if he comes back for us?
So, I've begun work on a project: I want it to be as top-secret as possible, so I'm not putting solid information on it even here. I'm going to keep a secondary journal and hide it with the relevant information inside to keep track. I haven't even begun building yet, but I need to formulate as many ideas as possible. This will be easily my biggest and most dangerous project yet: I need to exercise extreme caution when beginning construction.
(Margin notes: Because it's going to kick SO MUCH ASS.)
Having finished my work for the day, I'm heading back to my room: need to reorganize my weapons when I get back. Can't let anything distract me.
Nothing is more important than this, now.
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oh-dear-so-queer · 10 months
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To help narrow the field, certain parameters have been chosen: only examples of homosexual behavior or transgender that have been scientifically documented, for example, are covered in this book (such documentation includes published records in scientific journals and monographs, and/or firsthand observations by zoologists, wildlife biologists, and other trained animal observers, corroborated by multiple sources whenever possible).
"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl
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jcmicr · 11 months
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Publications trends in major anesthesiology journals: A 20-year analysis of five top-ranked journals in the field by Stefan Koppert in Journal of Clinical and Medical Images, Case Reports  
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Abstract
Background: With the intention to quantify the importance of a medical journal, the impact factor (IF) was introduced. It has become a de facto fictive rating instrument of the importance of medical journals. Also, it is often used to assess the value of the individual publications within the specific journal. The aim of the present study was to analyze publication trends over 20 years in five high-ranked anesthesiology journals.
Methods: The Medline (NCBI) database PubMed was used for analysis which was restricted to the following journals: 1. Anesthesiology; 2. British Journal of Anaesthesia; 3. Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology; 4. Anesthesia & Analgesia; and 5. Anaesthesia. Specific publication parameters (IFs, number of pages and authors, etc.) were retrieved using the PubMed download function and imported into Microsoft Excel for further analysis.
Results: The mean IF of the five journals analyzed increased significantly within the study period (1991 vs. 2010; +61.81%). However, the absolute number of case reports decreased significantly by 54.7% since 1991. The journals Br J Anaesth (12.2%), J Neurosurg Anesthesiol (51.9%), and Anesth Analg (57.2%) showed significant increases in the number of publications per year. The mean number of authors increased significantly in all the journals from 1991 to 2010 (3.0 vs. 4.3; +43.3%).
 Conclusions: The IF, as well as the number of articles per year and the number of authors per article, increased significantly. In contrast, the number of pages per article remained comparable during the period analyzed.
Keywords: Impact factor; scientific publication; scientific journal; publication trend.
Introduction
The scientific productivity of a institution or person in medical research is reflected by the number of published articles [1]. However, both medical science and publication options have changed dramatically over the last several years. Publishing medical data in the new open access journals (OAJs) and via the World Wide Web (WWW) has gained significant importance recently. Although the classic printed journal was the standard for any years, it is now easily possible to publish peer-reviewed medical work without printing on paper. Publishing scientific medical papers remains the standard in medicine with regard to scientific reputation.
 To quantify the importance of a medical paper, the impact factor (IF) was introduced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI, Thomson Scientific/Thomson Corporation, New York, NY, USA) in the 1960s [2]. The IF is a citation index calculated for a specific journal by dividing the number of citations within the last two years by the number of articles published [3, 4]. Therefore, it is a fictive instrument to rate the quality of a journal and the importance of an article because it is published within a specific journal [5]. The IF is relevant in medical research because it significantly impacts publication practice [6] and it has also gained enormous significance for research department funding [3]. The aim of the present study was to analyze the publication trends over 20 years in five high-ranked anesthesiology journals in Medline/PubMed [7]. We focused primarily on delineating trends in the IFs of each journal, as well as the numbers, types, and characteristics of each publication.
Material and Methods
Journals
The Medline (National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI, Rockville Pike, MD, USA) database PubMed (http://www.pubmed.com) was used for analysis [7]. Five high-ranked anesthesiology journals (excluding pain medicine), according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI, Thomson Scientific, Rockville Pike, MD, USA), were identified using InCites™ [2]. These top-ranked journals were selected by the highest IF in 2010. The IFs of these journals were gathered to analyze the trend in IF for each journal during the period from 1991 to 2010 [2]. Further analysis was restricted to the following journals: 1. Anesthesiology; 2. British Journal of Anaesthesia (Br J Anaesth); 3. Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology (J Neurosurg Anesthesiol); 4. Anesthesia & Analgesia (Anesth Analg); and 5. Anaesthesia.
Data acquisition
For specific data analysis, the following publication information was recorded in the following data sets:
country of origin;
article type (i.e., randomized, controlled trial [RCT], clinical trial, comparative study, or case report);
number of articles per year and journal [n];
number of pages per article [n]; and
number of authors per article [n].
Letters to the editor, editorials, and comments were excluded from the analysis because they are not necessarily based on scientific, peer-reviewed data. All published articles from these journals were gathered by direct data import from PubMed via Microsoft Excel® 2003 (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA) for each year (1991-2010) and for each of the five journals (search string; e.g., "Anesthesiology"[Journal] AND ("2006/01/01"[PDAT]: "2006/12/31"[PDAT]). Data were retrieved using the PubMed download function (XML data format; “Extensible Markup Language“) and were imported into Microsoft Excel for further analysis.
Statistical analysis
Descriptive statistics were performed by using Microsoft Excel® 2003. The t-test and the Chi²-test were used for the statistical analysis. A value of p<0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results
Impact factor analysis
Trends in the IF for each journal and year over the 20-year time frame (1991-2010) were gathered (Figure 1). During this period, the IFs of all journals increased (2.249 in 1991 vs. 3.639 in 2010; i.e., +61.81%). The IF of J Neurosurg Anesthesiol increased from 0.638 in 1992 to 2.205 in 2010, i.e., +245%. The smallest increase was +46.03% for Anesth Analg (from 1991 to 2010)
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Figure 1: The trend in impact factors (IF) among the top five anesthesiology journals [2]. x-axis shows the years analyzed and the y-axis shows the impact factor (IF) during that time.
Country of origin
A total of 42,549 articles, containing 183,763 pages written by 154,437 authors, were found between January 1, 1991, and December 31, 2010, in the five journals. Among these articles, the greatest numbers of publications were submitted from the US (31.05%; Table 1), followed by the UK (13.64%), Japan (9.24%), Germany (7.68%), and France (6.22%).
Table 1: Country of origin, number of publications, and resulting rank (1991 to 2010).
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Article type
The absolute number of comparative studies and randomized, controlled trials (RCT) was comparable between 1991 and 2010 (Figure 2) with minor changes during that time-frame. The number of case reports also varied from year to year; however, the absolute number of case reports decreased significantly by 45.8% between 2003 and 2010 and by 54.7% between 1991 and 2010 (p<0.0001; Figure 2).
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Figure 2: Publication types (case reports, comparative studies, and randomized controlled trials [RCTs]).
Articles per year
During the time frame analyzed, the mean number of articles per year in each journal [n] was 425±226. Altogether, 42,549 articles were published in the five journals. Anesth Analg (n=14,085 of 42,549; 33.1%) published the most articles, followed by Anesthesiology (23.4%), Anaesthesia (22.5%), Br J Anaesth (18.6%), and J Neurosurg Anesthesiol (2.4%). In Anesthesiology, the mean number of articles published per year was 498.8±67.6 (maximum n=628 in 1999; Figure 3). Compared to 1991, the number of articles per year decreased by 5.0% in this journal until 2010 (p=0.009). In Anaesthesia, a decrease of 45.1% (p<0.0001) in the mean number of articles published was also observed between 1991 and 2010. In contrast, the journals Br J Anaesth (+12.2%; p=0.816), J Neurosurg Anesthesiol (+51.9%; p<0.0001), and Anesth Analg (+57.2%; p<0.0001) all showed increases in the numbers of publications per year.
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Figure 3: Number of articles per year [n] in the top five anesthesia journals.
Pages per article
Although the mean number of pages per article (4.3±1.4) did not change between 1991 and 2010 (Figure 4; p>0.05), there were variations among the years. In the Br J Anaesth only, the pages per article remained stable during the time frame analyzed (p>0.05). In the other journals, the pages per article increased (Anesthesiology, Anesth Analg, Anaesthesia) or decreased (J Neurosurg Anesthesiol).
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Figure 4: Pages per article [n] in the top five anesthesia journals.
Number of authors per article
The mean number of authors per article [n] was 3.6±0.7, which increased significantly in all journals from 1991 to 2010 (3.0 vs. 4.3, a relative increase of 43.3%; p<0.0001; Figure 5). Anesthesiology showed the smallest increase (1991 vs. 2010, 3.43 vs. 4.28 authors; relative increase of 24.8%), followed by Anaesthesia (2.3 vs. 3.2; +39.1%), Anesth Analg (3.35 vs. 4.67; +39.4%), and Br J Anaesth (3.08 vs. 4.62; +50%); the greatest increase was observed in the J Neurosurg Anesthesiol (3.0 vs. 4.8; +62.5%).
Discussion
The aim of the present study was to analyze publication parameters in five top-ranked anesthesia journals over a 20-year time frame. The following journals were analyzed: 1. Anesthesiology; 2. Br J Anaesth; 3. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol; 4. Anesth Analg; and 5. Anaesthesia. The absolute number of scientific publications has been rising since the 18th century [8]. Since then, the number of publications has doubled every 10 to 15 years [8]. This trend has been especially true in Anesthesiology, which has gained relevance recently, thereby resulting in a concomitant increase in scientific publications [9-11]
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Figure 5: Number of authors per article [n] in the top five anesthesia journals (1991 to 2010).
Country of origin
In the present study, the vast majority of publications were submitted from the US, followed by Western Europe and Japan (Table 1). These data are in concordance with Li et al.’s study, analyzing journals between 2000 and 2009 [12]. The top five countries in the present investigation were among the top seven countries in the study by Li et al. [12]. Figueredo and colleagues also found that the USA, the UK, Japan, Germany, Canada, and France published the most articles in anesthesia journals between 1997 and 2001 [13]. In their study, the largest increase in scientific production in anesthesiology was observed in Germany [13]. However, they concluded that the geographical distribution of scientific production must not only be analyzed in absolute terms but should also be evaluated relative to other variables, such as financial spending on research and development, as well as population growth [13].
Articles per year
Altogether, 42,549 articles were published in the five journals within the time frame analyzed. In Anesthesiology, the mean number of articles published per year was 498.8±67.6. Compared to 1991, the number of articles per year decreased by 5.0% until 2010. In Anaesthesia, a decrease of 45.1% in the mean number of articles published was observed in the same period. In order to attain higher quality in journal articles and consequently a higher IF, several prerequisites for article acceptance have been developed in recent years. Currently, clinical trial registration, as well as plagiarism checks and ethical committee approvals, is a standard practice. Although this practice ensures higher-quality articles, it also could result in a decrease in the number of accepted publications.
Li et al. [14] confirmed these results in 18 different anesthesiology journals. The authors postulated that this decrease might be associated with an increasing IF. Feneck and colleagues also found a decrease in research publications from the UK in anesthesia journals from 1997 to 2006 [15]. In our study, the journals Br J Anaesth, J Neurosurg Anesthesiol, and Anesth Analg showed significant increases in the numbers of publications per year (1991 to 2010). Another study published by Li et al. [14] showed that these journals have decreasing numbers of articles while analyzing the period of 2000-2009 only. However, it is accepted that the absolute number of scientific publications is less important due to the difficulties that can occur in quality assessments of studies [16].
Impact factor analysis
Among the many surrogate parameters, the IF from the Institute for Scientific Information [2] has achieved the greatest popularity, especially in government research and medical schools [3, 4]. It is a common, but fictive, instrument for quantifying the importance of a medical paper based on citations [17] and it is used to rate the quality of a (medical) journal [4, 5]. Today, the IF also has enormous significance for research department funding [3, 18]. The IF was originally designed and sold as a product for advertisers, i.e., it was sold to advertisers, at very high costs for the purpose of helping them target their advertisements to the most widely read journals within the set of journals that were read by potential buyers of their products [19]. Although the IF is not an absolute measurement of the quality of a journal [3], it can quantify the influence of a journal in the medical field [4]. Because the IF influences medical research and funding [18], changes in the IF can significantly affect publication practice [6]. During the time frame analyzed, the IF of all journals in the present study increased (2.249 in 1991 vs. 3.639 in 2010; i.e., +61.81%). This phenomenon is not new and has been observed for several years also by other authors [20]. The median and highest IF in the present study have increased since 2005 [3]. This increase in IF has been observed for years [3, 20]. One main reason for the IF boom is the growth of research production [4, 20, 21]. More researchers are writing more contributions in more journals [22, 23] with more references [3]. In contrast, several journals have decreasing IFs, especially those in non-English languages and those that are difficult to access.
However, IFs can be manipulated by many strategies: self-citation; increasing editorials and reviews (more likely to be cited); and a reduction of the number of case reports (less likely to be cited) [4, 16, 18]. Therefore, the importance of the IF remains controversial [24] and there is no established current alternative available to rate the quality of scientific publications [4].
As the main factor that could lead to overestimate the IF is the amount of self-citations within a journal, in 2010 Landoni et al. [25] have suggested to apply a new metric called “new IF 20%”. This instrument, accounting the weight of self-citation with the aim of limiting their influence on the final result, is employed when the self-citation percentage is more than 20% of the total. Other authors present innovative journal metrics as IF substitute, e.g. the CAPCI factor (Citation Average per Citable Item) by E.P. Diamandis [26]. In addition, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has outlined guidelines for the authorship of scientific papers [27], but it remains unclear whether authors comply with these prerequisites when submitting manuscripts. Therefore, the contributions of each author should not only be judged by the authors themselves but also by the editors to prevent misconduct by researchers and inadequate authorship.
Article type
Although the absolute numbers of comparative studies and RCTs were comparable between 1991 and 2010, there were significant variations per year. In contrast, the absolute number of case reports decreased significantly by 45.8% between 2003 and 2010 and by 54.7% between 1991 and 2010. Li et al. [14] also found a decreasing number of articles per year (both clinical studies and RCTs) when analyzing several different journals. Because case reports are cited less frequently in the years after their publication, publishing them can be counterproductive for a journal striving to obtain a higher IF. Therefore, publishing fewer case reports to enhance the IF might have motivated the major anesthesiology journals that were analyzed in the present study.
Pages per article
The mean number of pages per article was 4.3±1.4 and did not change between 1991 and 2010 (Figure 4; p>0.05). However, only in the Br J Anaesth the pages per article remained stable during the time frame analyzed (p>0.05). For Anesthesiology, Anesth Analg, and Anaesthesia the pages per article increased but decreased significantly for J Neurosurg Anesthesiol. However, due to lower publications costs and the availability of electronic publication [28], restrictions on the length of articles might not have been as relevant as such restrictions previously were.
Number of authors per article
The mean number of authors per article was 3.6±0.7 in the present study, and it increased significantly in all journals analyzed between 1991 and 2010 (3.0 vs. 4.3; relative increase of 43.3%). This increase was the lowest in Anesthesiology (+24.8%) and was significantly higher in the other journals (+62.5%). The increase in the number of authors per articles has also been a commonly observed phenomenon in other medical journals and in different countries [29, 30]. This phenomenon has been observed even in the most highly ranked journals (N Engl J Med, J Am Med Assoc, and The Lancet) [29, 30]. Kumar et al. [30] reported a gradual increase in the average number of authors over the past three decades [30]. Drenth et al. also found an increasing number of authors in the Br Med J [31]. These findings are congruent with the results of the present study, although different medical fields were analyzed. A number of reasons could be responsible for this phenomenon [30]. There has been an increasing trend toward cooperation among researchers in multiple disciplines and an increase in multi-center studies, as well as an increase in the complexity of research projects, which could facilitate collaboration and result in an increase in the number of authors per article [30, 32]. Additionally, it has been shown that studies with many authors are cited more often than studies with fewer authors, thereby contributing to the IF of the journal [23].
Limitations
The analysis in the present study was restricted to only five high-ranked anesthesiology journals listed in the Medline and PubMed database. All these journals are published in English. Due to the descriptive character of this study, it was possible to delineate variations in the specific publications measured, but it was not possible to provide definitive answers why these changes occurred. However, we used a 20-year time frame to compensate for variations in specific years. Although the journals were selected from the anesthesiology category of JCR, a few of the selected journals cover disciplines beyond anesthesia research.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
Not Applicable.
Consent for publication
Granted by all authors.
Availability of data and material
On request.
Funding
None of the authors received financial or other support for the data analysis or for the writing of this manuscript. This study was not funded and did not require outside writing assistance.
Authors' information (optional)
All authors contributed significantly to the data analysis and to the writing of the manuscript.
Acknowledgements
None
Conclusions
The present study could provide some interesting insight into the trends in several specific publication measurements. When interpreted in the global context of biomedical publishing, the present study identified the potential publication strategies used to enhance the prominence of anesthesia journals. The IF (mean: +61.81%), as well the number of articles per year (+57.2%) and the numbers of authors per article (+43.3%) increased significantly between 1991 and 2010. In contrast, only the number of pages per article remained comparable during the period analyzed. It is impossible to offer definitive answers explaining why these measures changed, but these changes could partially be due to the authors (e.g., number of authors per article). In our opinion, the publication process would have greater transparency if journals would provide such data at the end of each year.
For more details : https://jcmimagescasereports.org/author-guidelines/ 
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blorbocedes · 5 months
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honestly. respect her for standing her ground
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what the comments were like when I checked, I can only imagine the dms are far worse
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Kinda sad to learn that there aren't really any 'Popular Science' news sources that has actual scientists writing the article--more specifically scientists writing popular science articles about their paper.
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angiospleen · 2 months
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Taking notes on Climate Change and the Past, Present, and Future of Biotic Interactions (Bois et al. 2013)
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tributary · 2 days
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not enough literature out there on mercury poisoning
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Having just looked up the submission cost to the journal Ecology, I will be printing out 100 copies of my manuscript and handing it out on street corners instead of traditionally publishing. Much more cost effective and more people will read it that way.
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So, how rare ARE Ford's extra fingers, anyway?
I'm not gonna lie, at first I was skeptical of Ford's claims that the Weirdness Magnetism had an effect on him. Like, yeah, the whole having six fingers thing isn't exactly common, but it's a naturally-occurring event. Stan describes it as a birth defect, and there doesn't seem to be a noticeably great number of people with those in Gravity Falls. It wouldn't be all that farfetched for Ford to think he was just Built Different, for like, at least 7 reasons, but then you start actually thinking about it.
Polydactyly isn't exactly common. Approximately 1 in 1,000 babies are born with some form of polydactyly. While it's true that postaxial polydactyly (extra digit is past the pinkie) is the most common form, which is shown to be the kind Ford has in the x-ray at the beginning of AToTS, there are several other extreme circumstances.
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Extra digits in polydactyly aren't usually found on all limbs. It can occur on hands and feet (and Alex has confirmed that Ford does, indeed, have six toes on both feet) but rarely does it occur on both feet, or both hands, much less both hands and both feet. And even when it does occur more than once on one person, the extra digits aren't usually fully-formed. Oftentimes they don't even have bones. When they do have bones, they're usually much smaller, or barely opposable (if they have joints at all). When they're big enough to be maneuverable, they usually interfere with the structure of the hands/feet in negative ways. All this means that an extra finger or toe which doesn't direly require a surgery to remove the extra digit within the first year or two of life is incredibly uncommon.
And let's remember: that's just for one extra digit. Ford has four.
For Ford to have fully functional polydactyly on both hands and both feet, to the point where it's basically impossible to tell which one is finger x without x-rays... the odds of that are astronomically unlikely. Never-before-recorded, one in a kazillion, borderline medically unfathomable sort of rare.
I think I do believe the Weirdness Magnetism could've affected Ford, actually.
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