Journal of Pediatric Neurological Disorders

Top Pediatric Case-reports

Case reports at just one occasion might be found in many if not most medical journals. I found that 40 years ago, the highest 10 pediatric journals all published case reports (many with designated case report sections), and 30% of the articles published within the 10 journals collectively were case reports. Twenty years ago, these same journals had reduced their case report publications, averaging only 15% of their published articles, with many having dropped a case report section altogether. In 2016, case reports only accounted for 4% of articles published during this same group of journals, with Pediatrics at 11% being the foremost committed to the present format of medical publication. Pediatrics is also the sole one among these publications with a delegated section for case reports. Pediatrics’ recent decision to scale back the amount of published case reports from a maximum of 8 a problem to three a problem is that the latest during this long decline. It appears that 2 forces have had a task within the decline of the case report as a genre of medical publications. The two forces include the impact factor, created within the 1990s, and therefore the inability to use statistical methodology to assess the info at hand.    

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