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A guide to writing case reports for the Journal of Medical Case Reports and BioMed Central Research Notes

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Title
A guide to writing case reports for the Journal of Medical Case Reports and BioMed Central Research Notes
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, November 2013
DOI 10.1186/1752-1947-7-239
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Authors

Richard A Rison

Abstract

Case reports are a time-honored, important, integral, and accepted part of the medical literature. Both the Journal of Medical Case Reports and the Case Report section of BioMed Central Research Notes are committed to case report publication, and each have different criteria. Journal of Medical Case Reports was the world's first international, PubMed-listed medical journal devoted to publishing case reports from all clinical disciplines and was launched in 2007. The Case Report section of BioMed Central Research Notes was created and began publishing case reports in 2012. Between the two of them, thousands of peer-reviewed case reports have now been published with a worldwide audience. Authors now also have Cases Database, a continually updated, freely accessible database of thousands of medical case reports from multiple publishers. This informal editorial outlines the process and mechanics of how and when to write a case report, and provides a brief look into the editorial process behind each of these complementary journals along with the author's anecdotes in the hope of inspiring all authors (both novice and experienced) to write and continue writing case reports of all specialties. Useful hyperlinks are embedded throughout for easy and quick reference to style guidelines for both journals.

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Country Count As %
Brazil 2 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Bangladesh 1 <1%
Morocco 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Egypt 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 339 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 63 18%
Researcher 47 13%
Student > Bachelor 42 12%
Student > Postgraduate 37 11%
Other 33 9%
Other 82 23%
Unknown 46 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 203 58%
Nursing and Health Professions 33 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 2%
Neuroscience 7 2%
Other 36 10%
Unknown 54 15%
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Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 August 2023.
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#2,679,105
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Outputs from Journal of Medical Case Reports
#188
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#29,840
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Medical Case Reports
#3
of 28 outputs
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