- Title
- Special issues in the Annals of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (editorial)
- Creator
- Smith, Derek R.; Goldsmid, John M.; Leggat, Peter A.
- Relation
- Annals of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine Vol. 9, p. 30-31
- Relation
- http://www.tropmed.org
- Publisher
- Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- From an editorial perspective, it can be suggested that the proliferation of special issues in recent years may reflect a few trends in scientific publishing. Firstly, there is the expertise and motivations of the Editor-in-Chief and / or the editorial board on a particular journal. Individuals with a personal interest in certain topics may be motivated to compile a special issue, while the interests of journal readers may encourage it to cover various aspects of the discipline which are deemed to be important. Specific authors may have a personal interest in particular topics and may be willing to collate an individual issue themselves. Publishers may encourage the formation of special issues to help boost a particular journal's position within a scientific field, and to help improve their impact factor.
- Subject
- scientific publishing; tropical medicine; impact factor; medical journals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41420
- Identifier
- uon:4783
- Identifier
- ISSN:1448-4714
- Language
- eng
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