Gaggero Gabriele
Pathology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy.
Acta Med Litu. 2024;31(2):245-253. doi: 10.15388/Amed.2024.31.2.21. Epub 2024 Dec 4.
Aspects of medicine can be conveyed through paradigmatic images (anatomical-surgical, radiological, microscopic) in image reports, a type of article more immediate than case reports. The aim of this review is to find journals allowing the publication of image reports and that are free of charge, open access and indexed in the best databases.
The search started with a Boolean string and followed the PRISMA 2020 guidelines. Eligibility criteria were: English language, human medicine field, international DOI and ISSN codes applied, free of charge, open access, PubMed/Scopus indexed.
15,504,000 items were retrieved; 102 met all criteria. Instructions to authors were screened to extract journals that allowed image reports: 39 (39/39 Scopus-indexed; 29/39 PubMed-indexed). Most were in oncology (6/39) and general medicine (5/39), followed by neuroscience, fetal/pediatric and nephrology (4/39 each), urology, dermatology, hematology (3/39 each), thoracic/pleural/peritoneal diseases (2/39), and finally endocrinology, cytology, rheumatology, ophthalmology, gastroenterology (1/39 each). 21/39 allowed a single image; word count ranged from 100 to 1500. 32/39 reported a maximum number of references (range: 0-20), while 15/39 reported a maximum number of authors (range: 2-6).
Compared to the vast publishing landscape, there are very few English-language, open access, PubMed/Scopus-indexed medical journals that allow free of charge publication of image reports. The majority are in the fields of oncology and general medicine, but other specialties are also represented. Image reports are usually articles with a limited number of words, references and authors allowed, as their purpose is much more a practical/didactic take-home message rather than a broad research with many authors. The review shows that image reports, still important for their educational value in medical knowledge transfer, are freely publishable and consultable in journals with international visibility.
医学的各个方面可以通过图像报告中的范式图像（解剖手术、放射、微观）来传达，图像报告是一种比病例报告更直观的文章类型。本综述的目的是找到允许发表图像报告的期刊，这些期刊免费、开放获取且被最好的数据库收录。
搜索从一个布尔字符串开始，并遵循PRISMA 2020指南。纳入标准为：英文、人类医学领域、应用国际数字对象标识符（DOI）和国际标准连续出版物编号（ISSN）代码、免费、开放获取、被PubMed/Scopus收录。
检索到15504000条记录；102条符合所有标准。对作者指南进行筛选以提取允许发表图像报告的期刊：39种（39种被Scopus收录；29种被PubMed收录）。大多数期刊涉及肿瘤学（6/39）和普通医学（5/39），其次是神经科学、胎儿/儿科和肾脏病学（各4/39），泌尿学、皮肤病学、血液学（各3/39），胸/胸膜/腹膜疾病（2/39），最后是内分泌学、细胞学、风湿病学、眼科学、胃肠病学（各1/39）。39种期刊中有21种允许发表单张图像；字数范围为100至1500字。39种期刊中有32种报告了参考文献的最大数量（范围：0至20），而39种期刊中有15种报告了作者的最大数量（范围：2至6）。
与广阔的出版格局相比，允许免费发表图像报告的英文、开放获取、被PubMed/Scopus收录的医学期刊非常少。大多数期刊属于肿瘤学和普通医学领域，但也涵盖其他专业。图像报告通常是字数、参考文献和作者数量有限的文章，因为其目的更多是传达实用/教学信息，而非众多作者参与的广泛研究。该综述表明，图像报告在医学知识传播中的教育价值仍然很重要，并且可以在具有国际影响力的期刊上免费发表和查阅。
