This increase was expected given the large increases in publications volumes in non-English native speaking, high-volume publishing countries like China, India, South Korea, and Iran.
But the open-access business model depends on a high volume of published papers for financial viability, leaving little time for the deliberative process of traditional peer review.
In addition ISI do not index large quantities of German and Dutch journals for example, many German researchers with a high output volume published in the non-indexed Zeitschrift fur Allgemeinmedizin, Zeitschrift fur Arztliche Fortbildung und Qualitatssicherung, Internistische Praxis, and Chirurgische Praxis.
The h-index is, therefore, little affected by researchers who publish a high volume of low-impact papers or those who only have a few, high-impact publications.
Duncan Edwards, NatMags' deputy managing director, said: "We've bought a very succesful publishing group with high volume products.
This percentage of LND is comparable to published series from high volume centres (Capitanio et al, 2009).
The cutoff point for high volume hospitals was based on hospital referral guidelines published by the Leapfrog group.
Such a scenario is changing as centralized publishing models are unable to cope with the high volume and dynamicity of information available from a myriad of sources.
Since the 1960s, volume publishing has become an automated process using large computers and high-speed printers to transfer digitally stored data on paper.
Recently, Zhou and collaborators [ 36] published a meta-analysis of all randomized trials of blood purification strategies in sepsis, including high volume hemofiltration, PMX-DHP, and plasma exchange.
Despite the high volume of consultations, wait times in Québec rural EDs are within or approximate national guidelines that were recently published by CAEP [ 24].
