The first guest blog entry for BioMed Central comes from Bart Knols, a malaria reseacher from the Netherlands who has published extensively in BioMed Central’s open access journals. He writes: A survey amongst more than 100 malaria researchers revealed that they spend an average of 4.6 hours per week searching for information – articles, e-tocs,… Read more »
uBioRSS is a nifty service from the MBLWHOI Library at Woods Hole, which harvests bibliographic information about new articles from publishers’ RSS feeds, and then passes them through the uBio taxonomic classification system which identifies any species that are mentioned in the article, and classifies the article appropriately. This makes it possible to browse the… Read more »
The 2006 edition of Journal Citation Reports has just been released, with updated impact factors for journal titles tracked by Thomson Scientific. Highlights for BioMed Central’s open access journals include the first official impact factor for BMC Immunology (3.04) and a great performance by Malaria Journal (Impact Factor 2.75) which in just 5 years has… Read more »
We are pleased to announce that Dr M Salih Deveci, from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, has been awarded the Best of Cytojournal 2006 award for the article ‘Fine-needle aspiration of follicular lesions of the thyroid. Diagnosis and follow-Up’. The award was given to Dr Deveci and his co-authors after a panel selected their… Read more »
In a new editorial, the Editor-in-Chief of Retrovirology, Kuan-Teh Jeang, discusses various approaches to citation metrics including author-focused metrics such as the H-factor, and asks: "There is a natural tendency to judge a gift by the attractiveness of its wrapping. In some respect, this reflects current mores of measuring the gravitas of a scientific paper… Read more »
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Charles Bangham, Chairman of Immunology at Imperial College, has been awarded the 2007 BioMed Central/Retrovirology award for HTLV-1 research. The award recognises outstanding contributions to the field of Human T-lymphotropic virus-1 (HTLV-1) research. Kuan-Teh Jeang, Editor-in-Chief of Retrovirology, presented the award to Prof. Bangham at the 13th International… Read more »
BMC Bioinformatics reached an impressive milestone in May 2007, receiving 105 manuscript submissions – a record number for the journal. This is the first first time that monthly submissions for a single BioMed Central journal have reached triple digits, and demonstrates the continuing success and growth of BioMed Central’s journals. We are especially pleased to see… Read more »