The book “Ten Years of Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina”, written by academician Izet Masic contains next chapters: 1) On Occasion of Tenth Anniversary of Academy of Medical ...Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina–2009 -2019; 2) Members of Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina; 3) Scientific Conferences and Meetings Organized by Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina–2009 – 2019; 4) Published Books and Monographs of the Members of Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina; 5) Honors, Awards, Certificates, Acknowledgments of AMNuBiH members; 6) The Important Documents of Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina–2009-2019.
Medical Archives is the oldest biomedical journal in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and all important individuals of medical clinical practice have been published in the Medical Archives, and even today, in ...index and citation databases: Medline, PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, open access variants, is the main advertiser of medical sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Medical Archives in the future would like to become a free-of-charge journal, which will publish open access articles, because finally, the financial component should be a deciding factor whether the article will be published or not. The journal opened the door to PhD students, which should also be an incentive for further progress. The main goal of the journal is to continuously raise the quality, with the addition of establishment as a source of quality science.
The decision of the citation database to include or not include a journal is not subject to the control of another entity, or the professional public, and there are no internationally established ...ethical standards that the citation database would have to apply. As a consequence of the absence of control, the already mentioned offensive reviews and arbitrary interpretation of the criteria for journal inclusion appear. Given that a journal's entry into the citation database is a condition for its long-term survival, people who make decisions in the citation databases gain the power to shut down or revive certain journals based on personal preferences. Any power that is not controlled is eventually abused. Therefore, our proposal is to urgently establish the principles of ethical behavior of citation databases at the global level and find ways to ensure compliance with such principles.
Pseudo journals, hijacked journals, fraudulent journals, fake journals, and predatory journals waste valuable research when authors publish their studies in them.
This article described novel ...suggested features for the identification of fraudulent journals and aimed to explain this issue to help inexperienced scientists avoid publishing in predatory journals.
The articles related to this topic in were retrieved from PubMed and trustable Internet sources.
Unfortunately, some fake journals have made their way into reputable databases, such as PubMed, PubMed Central, MEDLINE, SCOPUS, and Web of Science; thus, the serious question has been raised regarding how we should address this problematic phenomenon. We recommended 28 suggested characteristics of predatory journals for readers to take into consideration.
Unaware of the detrimental effects associated with publishing in disreputable journals, inexperienced researchers can fall victim to them. Together, as both readers and writers, we should completely boycott predatory journals.
In the hilly Balkans, a folk proverb has been circulating for a long time, „It is most difficult to be a prophet in one‘s own village“, which reflects the age-old mistrust of the population towards ...new ideas. This is not surprising in the least, because since the written history of the peoples of the Balkans has existed, a continuous series of conquerors and local rulers who subjugated the common folks and imposed their world view can be traced. Nevertheless, from time to time, people with great strength appear who not only break the shackles imposed by the powerful, but through their actions find a way to the souls of their compatriots and gain their unreserved trust. One of such spontaneous creators is professor Izet Mašić, who achieved a miracle of medical publishing in his Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina and traced the path of medical science. There may be thousands of medical journals in the world, more or less reputable, and researchers from the Balkans can publish their work in them, but only domestic medical journals can initiate and direct domestic medical research, and educate young researchers in the right way. Professor Mašić made it possible for authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina and other Balkan countries to present their results to the world and receive an incentive from impartial experts to continue their work and progress more and more by editing and publishing three domestic journals at once, which are visible in the most important world bases,. The progress in research then translated into improving medical practice and health care of the population. The following details from Professor Mašić‘s biography tell us how this miracle happened. This year, academician Izet Mašić, Editor-in-Chief of a few biomedical journals, including Acta Informatica Medica journal, celebrates his 70th birthday and also 45 years of his academic and scientific work.
Diabetics have a 3-fold risk for cardiovascular diseases compared with non-diabetics. This study was designed to evaluate cerebral hemodynamic changes related to type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) with ...transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD). TCD is a highly sensitive and specific method of quick bedside assessment of cerebrovascular circulation hemodynamics.
In a prospective study, we compared a group of 100 patients with the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (aged 48 to 67 years) and an age- and sex-matched control group of 100 healthy subjects without diabetes mellitus. We measured flow velocities (Vm) and the Gosling pulsatility index (PI) of the middle cerebral artery (MCA).
The rate of TCD abnormalities was significantly higher in diabetic patients than in healthy control subjects (55% vs. 11%, P < 0.05). The PI was significantly higher in diabetic patients than in healthy controls (P < 0.001). Atherosclerotic changes were found in 34.0% and 71.4% of patients suffering from diabetes for <5 and > or =5 years, respectively.
This study suggests that TCD is a useful marker for the detection of diabetic cerebrovascular changes. The duration and type of diabetes were found to have an impact on the development of pathologic cerebrovascular changes.
Objective: We examined the association of dermatological signs such as baldness, thoracic hairiness, hair greying and diagonal earlobe crease with the risk of myocardial infarction in men under the ...age of 60 years.
Methods: A hospital-based, case-control study included 842 men admitted for the first non-fatal myocardial infarction, the controls were 712 men admitted with noncardiac diagnoses, without clinical signs of coronary disease. The relative risks were estimated as odds ratios. Logistic regression was used to control for the confounding variables.
Results: Baldness, thoracic hairiness and earlobe crease were ∼40% more prevalent in cases (
P<10
−6 in each case). In both cases and controls, baldness and thoracic hairiness were frequently coexistent, as well as hair greying and earlobe crease (
P<10
−4 in each case). After allowing for age and other established coronary risk factors, the relative risk of myocardial infarction for fronto-parietal baldness compared with no hair loss was 1.77 (95% CI 1.27–2.45) and it was 1.83 (95 CI 1.4–2.3) for men with thick, extended thoracic hairiness. The presence of a diagonal earlobe crease yielded a relative risk of 1.37 (95% CI 1.25–1.5), while hair greying was associated with myocardial infarction only in men under the age of 50 years.
Conclusion: It appears that baldness, thoracic hairiness and diagonal earlobe crease indicate an additional risk of myocardial infarction in men under the age of 60 years, independently of age and other established coronary risk factors.
Continuous glucose monitoring systems can monitor moment-to-moment changes in blood glucose concentration, which cannot be detected by intermittent self-monitoring. Continuing monitoring systems may ...lead to improved glycemic control. We evaluated a microdialysis technique for improving glycemic control in type 1 diabetes patients treated by different means of basal insulin substitution.
Fifty-two type 1 diabetic patients on twice daily NPH and pre-meal aspart insulin were randomized in two groups: the continuation of NPH (n=26) (group 1) or once daily glargine (n=26) (group 2). 48-hour GlucoDay registrations were started at the beginning and after 4 months.
At baseline, time spent in the euglycemic range (glucose between 3.9 and 8.0 mmol/L) was 37.96+/-6.81% for the NPH group and 35.83+/-6.24% for the glargine group. At endpoint, time in the euglycemic range increased in both groups (51.02+/-7.22% and 57.29+/-10.27%, P<0.001 vs. before treatment for both groups). Time spent in the hypoglycemic range (glucose <3.9 mmol/L) was 9.+/-2.57% for the first group and 10.24+/-3.55% for the second group at baseline. At endpoint, time in the hypoglycemic range decreased in both groups (8.00+/-2.13% and 6.59+/-2.04%, P<0.001 vs. before treatment for both groups).
The analysis of the GlucoDay data gave us information about glycemia other than HbA1c and self-monitoring of blood glucose, such us a peakless activity profile and the lower percentage of time spent in the hypoglycemic range in the glargine-treated group.
Enormous number of medical journals published around the globe requires standardization of editing practice.
The aim of this article was to enlist main principles of editing biomedical scientific ...journals adopted at annual meeting of Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia & Herzegovina (AMSB&H).
The evidence for writing this Guideline was systematically searched for during September 2020 in the PUBMED and GOOGLE SCHOLAR databases. The inclusion criteria were: original studies, systematic reviews, invited expert opinions, guidelines and editorials. The exclusion criteria were narrative reviews and uninvited opinion articles. The retrieved evidence was analyzed by members of the AMSB&H, then discussed at 2020 annual meeting of the AMSB&H and adopted by nominal group technique.
In total 14 recommendations were made, based on A to C class of evidence. The editors should educate potential authors and instruct them how to structure their manuscript, how to write every segment of the manuscript, and take care about correct use of statistical tests. Plagiarism detection softwares should be used regularly, and statistical and technical editing should be rigorous and thorough. International standards of reporting specific types of studies should be followed, and principles of ethical and responsible behavior of editors, reviewers and authors should be published on the journal's web site. The editors should insist on registration of clinical studies before submission, and check whether non-essential personal information is removed from the articles; when essential personal information has to be included, an article should not be published without signed informed consent by the patient to whom these information relate.
Principles of editing biomedical scientific journals recommended in this guideline should serve as one of the means of improving medical journals' quality.
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