Editorial quality and rheological publications

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Witte, Siegfried

Affiliations: Dept. of Medicine, Diakonissen-Krankenhaus, D-76199 Karlsruhe, Germany

Abstract: Background: Research findings in clinical hemorheology must be published in the optimum way to keep medical research and practice currently informed. Objective: Critical presentation of current possibilities for publication. Results: Hemorheology supplies results which are of interest to many clinical fields. These results include: diagnostic questions connected in particular with clinical laboratories and blood transfusion centres; pathophysiological problems; the fields of epidemiology and prognosis; the most important fields of prophylaxis and therapy in all branches of medicine and surgery; pharmacology and drug research. Therefore, a wide spectrum must be covered by publication. It has to reach the medical practitioner, the laboratory doctor, the pharmacologist, and the industrial partner in diagnosis and therapy. The protection of a high, scientific standard is the main duty of the inpendent journal. The editorial policy of the international journal “Clinical Hemorheology” is presented in its actual form and future development is discussed. Conclusion: Hemorheological publications are an essential means to present and spread this science. Quality control is based on the independence and international competence of a publisher and on the peer review policy of a multidisciplinary editorial board.

Keywords: Quality Control, Publishing, Periodicals

DOI: 10.3233/CH-1993-13606

Journal: Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 753-757, 1993