Article Text

Download PDFPDF
The EBM journal selection process: how to find the 1 in 400 valid and highly relevant new research articles
  1. Paul Glasziou, MBBS, PhD
  1. Oxford University
 Oxford, UK

    Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    I am sometimes asked why we have so many articles in the “Therapeutics” section of the Journal compared with the other sections. The answer largely lies in the material we have to work with. It is helpful to understand how we process articles from original journals to abstract. So here is a brief description:

    Step 1. We scan around 135 primary journals to check whether original research articles pass our basic validity criteria (see “Purpose and procedure” for details of these criteria). However, only around 5% (1 in 20) of the 50 …

    View Full Text