Ramification of indexing of medical journals

摘要

The 154 manuscripts published by HSR Proceedings in Intensive Care and Cardiovascular Anesthesia (HSR Proc Intensive Care Cardiovasc Anesth) in the January 2009 – December 2012 period are now indexed in Pubmed. English is the language for manuscript submission in HSR Proc Intensive Care Cardiovasc Anesth. All manuscripts undergo peer review. Even if the Journal publishes several articles in the field of critical care medicine, emergency medicine cardiology, surgery and general anesthesia, 29 out of the 43 manuscripts published in 2012 dealt with cardiothoracic and vascular surgery and anesthesia. Cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesiologists can publish their articles in a variety of Journals such as those with high impact factors (New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Journal of American Association of Medicine and the British Medical Journal among others) and those journals focusing on Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Critical Care Medicine or Emergency Medicine. Furthermore, few journals of anesthesiology such as the British Journal of Anaesthesia, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia as the British Journal of Anaesthesia, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia, Current Opinion in Anesthesiology, European Journal of Anaesthesiology have a dedicated cardiovascular or thoracic section and only one out of the 28 “Anesthesiology” Journals with impact factor has a title that includes cardiothoracic and/or vascular anesthesia: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia (JCVA). To the best of our knowledge, there are only two further Journals on Pubmed that have a name attractive enough for cardiac anesthesiologists (Annals of Cardiac Anesthesia and Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia) and one that is not yet indexed (Egyptian Journal of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia) (Table 1).