How to cite twitter, how to cite tweets, how to archive tweets
Posted by medical student in news health dated December 22nd, 2011
As twitter and microblogging is gaining momentum as a social phenomenon, a number of researchers start wondering how to cite tweets (for example here) and how to cite a whole thread (series of tweets).A related issue is how to digitally preserve and archive tweets. For example, using twitter search, one can currently only search a [...]
Impact Factors of Medical Informatics Journals 2011
Posted by medical student in news health dated July 17th, 2011
(Toronto, June 29th, 2011) The new JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research) Impact Factor for 2010 (released in June 2011 by Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports) has further increased to an unprecedented 4.7 (5-year impact factor: 5.0). Never before in the history of the impact factor had a journal in the medical informatics category such [...]
JMIR’s Fast-Track Experiment (Innovations in Scholarly Publishing: Part 1)
Posted by medical student in news health dated July 17th, 2011
As (to our knowledge) the first journal in the world, the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) started in 2007 to offer a “paid fast-track” (FT) option, where authors pay an extra fee if they require an extra-speedy handling of their manuscript.JMIR’s fast-track package consists of two components:
