JANE, the Journal Author/Name Estimator, is a free online bioinformatics tool that allows you to plug in some information on the topic of a manuscript that you are working on. From there, JANE compares your inputted text to MEDLINE records, ultimately returning as its product a list of suggested journal titles that you may want to consider submitting your work to for publication. Other uses for this search interface include: identifying potential reviewers that may be appropriate candidates for reviewing an article on a particular topic and locating related papers worthy of citing in your manuscript. Created in 2007 and maintained by Martjin Schuemie, JANE is now hosted by the Observational Health Data Science and Informatics program, with copyrights held by the The Biosemantics Group. For more details, read the openly-available paper describing this tool: Continue reading →

Established in 1999, the Centre of Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP), now at the George Institute for Global Health in Australia, is responsible for PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database and the consumer health version of PEDro, Physiotherapy Choices. PEDro is freely-available to all and includes “over 34,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy”. Most noteworthy, clinical trials included in PEDro are critically appraised and assigned a quality rating to help users make a determination about the strength of the evidence before using it in their clinical decision-making. 

Figure 1. An abstract of a clinical trial from PEDro. Highlighted in blue is the quality rating.

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