tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Retrovirology and young Turks..."

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học quốc tế cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Retrovirology and young Turks. | Retrovirology BioMed Central Editorial Retrovirology and young Turks. Kuan-Teh Jeang Address the National Institutes of Health USA Email Kuan-Teh Jeang - kj7e@ Corresponding author Open Access Published 27 February 2004 Received 20 February 2004 Accepted 27 February 2004 Retrovirology 2004 1 1 This article is available from http content 1 1 1 2004 Jeang licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. It is 2004 and as a virologist and retrovirologist for the past 18 years I pause to survey the publishing landscape of our field of science. Without a doubt today we have two outstanding journals published in the United States dedicated to basic virological research Journal of Virology and Virology as well as several other authoritative journals dedicated to virological research published in the US and elsewhere. Is there then a need for Retrovirology If Retrovirology were simply to be a smaller facsimile of any of these other publications then the short answer would be No . The fact that we are launching a new initiative and you are reading this Editorial suggests that Retrovirol-ogy will be different in some ways from those two very well-established publications. Prior to agreeing to commence Retrovirology the first question that I asked was whether there is room for this journal. Off the shelf I took two recent issues of Journal of Virology and Virology respectively and manually counted the number of retrovirus papers in these two publications. In Journal of Virology I counted 18 retrovirus papers out of a total of 54 published articles and in Virology I counted 4 out of 17. Depending on how you view this cursory and unscientific survey you might agree that retrovirologists are highly productive researchers responsible for between one-third to one-fourth of all