Trialists consider the prestige and impact factors of academic journals to be the most important criteria for selecting those to which they would submit manuscripts
A study was published in Trials earlier this year to investigate, amongst other things, the experiences of investigators in publishing their research. Through interviews, trialists reported that the impact factors of journals and their kudos within the clinical specialty where they worked generally dictated which journal they approached first for publication. The full, open access paper can be viewed at the following link: http://www.trialsjournal.com/content/16/1/16.
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