Reforzando el paradigma biomédico / Bolstering the biomedical paradigm

Frank Thomas Houghton, Sharon Houghton

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Abstract

Es tal vez preocupante, pero honesto, admitir la existencia de una jerarquia establecida de It is perhaps distressing, but true, to acknowledge that there is an established hierarchy of revistas medicas. Una “prestigiosa” revista del ramo, reconocida casi universalmente es The Journal of the American Medical Association, o JAMA, como se le refiere. JAMA presume de un factor de impacto de 30, del cual dice ser “uno de los mas altos entre revistas medicas y cientificas”.1 Ademas de una larga historia -JAMA ha sido publicada desde 1883 – tambien se adjudica un “amplia audiencia, con mas de 14.4 millones de visitas a su pagina web y el tiraje mas numeroso entre todas las revistas medicas, con mas de 315,000 suscriptores por todo el mundo”. - - - - - - - - It is perhaps distressing, but true, to acknowledge that there is an established hierarchy of journals in the health and medical field. A so-called ‘leading’ journal in this area is The Journal of the American Medical Association or JAMA as it is almost universally known. JAMA boasts an impact factor of 30, which it states is ‘one of the highest in medicine and science’.1 As well as having a long history – JAMA has been published since 1883 – JAMA also claims a ‘Broad reach, with more than 14.4 million annual visits to JAMA online and the largest print circulation of any general medical journal, with more than 315,000 recipients worldwide’.1
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)99-100
Number of pages2
JournalSocial Medicine/ Medicina Social
Volume8
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 18 Nov 2014

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