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Letter to the Editor
Analysis of publication trends in two internationally renowned ophthalmology journals
  1. A ANG
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Ipswich Hospital, Heath Road, Ipswich IP4 5PD, UK
  2. Department of Ophthalmology
  3. Queen's Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
  1. L TONG,
  2. A BHAN
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Ipswich Hospital, Heath Road, Ipswich IP4 5PD, UK
  2. Department of Ophthalmology
  3. Queen's Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
  1. Mr A Ang, Department of Opthalmology, West Norwich Hospital, Bowthorpe Road, Norwich NR2 3TU

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.85.12.1497

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    Editor,—International journals represent a forum for exchange of current information with contributions from all over the world. High standards are essential. In this report, we compared the publishing trends of two internationally renowned ophthalmology journals—the British Journal of Ophthalmology (BJO) and the American Journal of Ophthalmology (AJO).

    METHOD AND RESULTS

    Using the public Medline facility provided by the National Institutes of Health, the numbers of prospective studies and case reports published in the AJO and theBJO from January 1980 to December 1999 were determined. These were done using the following keyword searches: “prospective” and “case report.” The countries of origin of the articles were counted manually for the years 1990 and 1999, and were taken as the addresses of the corresponding author. Keyword searching was not possible owing to the non-uniformity of the …

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