Abstract
After being indexed in 2006 in EMBASE/Excerpta Medica and Scopus, and later in Science Citation Index Expanded and Journal Citation Reports/ Science Edition citation databases, Biochemia Medica launched a new web page and online manuscript submission system in 2010, and celebrated its first Impact Factor in the same year. Now, starting from the end of the 2011, the journal will also be indexed in PubMed/Medline, and this will contribute to increase the journal's exposure and accessibility worldwide. This is an important breakthrough, which is expected to further increase the popularity of the journal, as well as the submission rate and citations. Although several tools are currently available as Web resources to retrieve scientific articles, whose functioning and basic criteria are thought to be rather similar, the functionality, coverage, notoriety and prominence may differ widely. The recent indexing of Biochemia Medica in PubMed/Medline has thereby given us the opportunity to provide a timely update on biomedical research platforms, their relationship with article submissions and journal rankings.
Highlights
After initially being indexed in 2006 in EMBASE/ Excerpta Medica and Scopus [1], and later in Science Citation Index Expanded and Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition citation databases [2], Biochemia Medica launched a new web page and online manuscript submission system in 2010 [3], and celebrated its first Impact Factor in the same year [4]
The above factors represent major breakthroughs for Biochemia Medica, and have provided the opportunity to provide an update on biomedical research platforms and their relationship with article submissions and journal rankings
The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing PubMed citations, which can be used to find terms such as subheadings, publication types, supplementary Concepts and pharmacological actions
Summary
After initially being indexed in 2006 in EMBASE/ Excerpta Medica and Scopus [1], and later in Science Citation Index Expanded and Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition citation databases [2], Biochemia Medica launched a new web page and online manuscript submission system in 2010 [3], and celebrated its first Impact Factor in the same year [4]. Beginning November 23, 2011 Biochemia Medica is indexed in PubMed/Medline, and this will contribute to increase the journal’s exposure and accessibility worldwide This is expected to further increase the journal’s Impact Factor value, which last year remarkably increased from 0.660 to 1.085, whilst those of most other laboratory medicine journals has instead declined [5]. The above factors represent major breakthroughs for Biochemia Medica, and have provided the opportunity to provide an update on biomedical research platforms and their relationship with article submissions and journal rankings
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