Special issues in the Annals of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (editorial)

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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