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  1. Uncertain use of a fixed p value significance threshold in randomized clinical trials
  2. THE BIVARIATE CORRELATION COEFFICIENT: FROM CONCEPT TO APPLICATION
  3. The global, regional, and national burden of cancer, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
  4. Global, Regional, and National Burden of Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
  5. On the effect of flexible adjustment of the p value significance threshold on the reproducibility of randomized clinical trials
  6. Global, regional and national burden of dietary iron deficiency from 1990 to 2021: a Global Burden of Disease study
  7. Diagnostic tests performance indices
  8. The P Value: What It Is and What It Is Not
  9. Iranian Scholar Haly Abbas Contributes to Europe’s First Modern Medical School
  10. Toll-Like Receptors Agonists: First-Line Defense Tools in the Pandemic Preparedness Arsenal?
  11. The ‘balls’ of an ideal man?
  12. Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  13. The effect on the equilibrium sickle cell allele frequency of the probable protection conferred by malaria and sickle cell gene against other infectious diseases
  14. Reinterpretation of the results of randomized clinical trials
  15. Global pattern, trend, and cross-country inequality of early musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 to 2019, with projection from 2020 to 2050
  16. Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  17. Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a syst...
  18. Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  19. Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality burden of non-COVID-19 lower respiratory infections and aetiologies, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  20. CHI-SQUARED TEST
  21. On the feasibility of malaria hypothesis
  22. Global Health Trends 1950–2021: Impact of COVID-19 on Mortality and Population Growth
  23. Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  24. Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  25. On the use of receiver operating characteristic curve analysis to determine the most appropriate p value significance threshold
  26. Data Distribution: Normal or Abnormal?
  27. Credibility of the P Value
  28. Bird’s Eye View for Risk Adjustment in Medical Research
  29. MY LIFE AS AN EDITOR AND CONSULTANT OF MEDICAL JOURNALS
  30. Chatbots, generative AI, and scholarly manuscripts: WAME recommendations on chatbots and generative artificial intelligence in relation to scholarly publications
  31. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risks, 1990-2022
  32. Chatbots, generative AI, and scholarly manuscripts
  33. CHATBOTS, GENERATIVE AI, AND SCHOLARLY MANUSCRIPTS WAME RECOMMENDATIONS ON CHATBOTS AND GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN RELATION TO SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
  34. When to Attend a Webinar?
  35. Correction of vaccine effectiveness derived from test-negative case–control studies
  36. Chatbots, Generative AI, and Scholarly Manuscripts: WAME Recommendations on Chatbots and Generative Artificial Intelligence in Relation to Scholarly Publications Revised May 31, 2023
  37. On determining the sensitivity and specificity of a new diagnostic test through comparing its results against a non-gold-standard test
  38. Echinococcophobia
  39. The future of scientific journals: The rise of UniAI
  40. Malaria and the incidence of COVID-19 in Africa: an ecological study
  41. No need for a gold-standard test: on the mining of diagnostic test performance indices merely based on the distribution of the test value
  42. The Acceptable Text Similarity Level in Manuscripts Submitted to Scientific Journals
  43. GPTZero Performance in Identifying Artificial Intelligence-Generated Medical Texts: A Preliminary Study
  44. Employing Unprofessional Editors for Handling Submissions in Scholarly Journals
  45. Plagiarism: A Bird’s Eye View
  46. On Measuring Vaccine Effectiveness with Observational Study Designs
  47. The apparent prevalence, the true prevalence
  48. Determining the SARS-CoV-2 serological immunoassay test performance indices based on the test results frequency distribution
  49. Use of Oral Polio Vaccine and the Global Incidence of Mother-to-Child Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission
  50. Use of oral polio vaccine and the incidence of COVID-19 in the world
  51. Disparity in the selection of patients in clinical trials
  52. Error in Figure
  53. COVID-19 Infection Among Women in Iran Exposed vs Unexposed to Children Who Received Attenuated Poliovirus Used in Oral Polio Vaccine
  54. The challenges of a small medical journal to have international recognition in Indonesia: editors' perspectives
  55. THE QUEST FOR INDEXING A JOURNAL
  56. Predicting the outcome of asymptomatic univesicular liver hydatids: diagnostic accuracy of unenhanced CT
  57. On the information hidden in a classifier distribution
  58. ABC’s of Acid-Base Chemistry
  59. Arterial Blood Gas
  60. Gas Laws
  61. Introduction to Acid-Base Chemistry and Arterial Blood Gases
  62. Metabolic Acidosis and Alkalosis
  63. Mixed Disorders
  64. Respiratory Acidosis and Alkalosis
  65. Starting from Scratch
  66. What Happens in a Person
  67. Pathophysiologic Basis of Acid-Base Disorders
  68. QT Interval Prolongation in Patients Treated for COVID-19
  69. The Last Note
  70. Comprehensive Survey of Plagiarism in Iran
  71. Rate of re-positive RT-PCR test among patients recovered from COVID-19
  72. World War III
  73. Retrieving Organs of Executed Prisoners in Iran?
  74. The Mean Prevalence
  75. The Coronavirus Pandemic: "The Show Must Not Go On"
  76. Tenth Anniversary of The IJOEM
  77. The IJOEM, DOAJ Seal, and Plan S
  78. Shiraz Organ Transplant Center: The Largest Liver Transplant Center in the World
  79. The likelihood ratio and its graphical representation
  80. Open Access Journals in the Middle East and Iran
  81. Accessing free quality health care services and premature death
  82. Unnecessary pre-emptive surgical operation of incidentally discovered liver hydatids
  83. Economic sanction: a weapon of mass destruction
  84. Editorial Process and Peer Review
  85. Re: Eric A. Klein, Arnon Chait, Jason M. Hafron, et al. The Single-parameter, Structure-based IsoPSA Assay Demonstrates Improved Diagnostic Accuracy for Detection of Any Prostate Cancer and High-grade Prostate Cancer Compared to a Concentration-based A...
  86. The Non-operative Management of Asymptomatic Liver Hydatids: Ending Echinococcophobia
  87. What is a “Diagnostic Test Reference Range” Good for?
  88. The most appropriate perfusate pH for ex vivo hypothermic organ perfusion: A hypothesis
  89. Core competencies for scientific editors of biomedical journals: consensus statement
  90. Predatory journals and their effects on scientific research community
  91. Criterion used for determination of test cut-off value
  92. Predatory or Legitimate Journals
  93. Choice of criterion used in the receiver operating characteristic analysis
  94. Statistical Data Editing in Scientific Articles
  95. Please Do Not Send Us YourGood Articles
  96. On determining the most appropriate test cut-off value: the case of tests with continuous results
  97. What’s in a name, anyway?
  98. How much precision in reporting statistics is enough?
  99. Shuffle randomization
  100. RETRACTION: BarkhordariA, et al. The Glycoprofile Patterns of Endothelial Cells in Usual Interstitial Pneumonia. Int J Occup Environ Med 2014;5:201-7.
  101. Hadj ritual and risk of a pandemic
  102. Is there an apartheid in science publishing?
  103. Medical writing in the Middle East
  104. Number Needed to Misdiagnose
  105. Infectious diseases in Iran: a bird's eye view
  106. Reproductive behaviour of mothers of children with beta-thalassaemia major
  107. The control of non-communicable diseases in rural Iran
  108. Department of Error
  109. Clinical trial registration: internal conflict?
  110. Bilateral trigger finger in a 5-year-old child: Case report
  111. Letter to the Editor
  112. Plagiarism in scientific writing: words or ideas?
  113. Evidence-based journalism
  114. Change or Perish
  115. Judge the Article, Not the Author
  116. Are Shorter Article Titles More Attractive for Citations? Cross-sectional Study of 22 Scientific Journals
  117. Duplicate publication and plagiarism: causes and cures
  118. Knowledge and attitudes of breast self examination in a group of women in Shiraz, southern Iran
  119. The problem of “Who”
  120. The problem of “Who”
  121. International aid in disaster zones: help or headache?
  122. Time for a change in the definition of fever of unknown origin
  123. Journal weighted impact factor: A proposal
  124. World Association of Medical Editors: Support for the Croatian Medical Journal’s Editorial Independence
  125. Persian or Arab? The "anatomy charts" from the collection of Sami Ibrahim Haddad
  126. Rules of the game of scientific writing: fair play and plagiarism
  127. Scientific research in Iran: forgotten factors
  128. A snapshot of medical journals from the Middle East
  129. Extension of US trade embargoes to science editing
  130. Culture and medical terms: help or headache?
  131. Hypoparathyroidism with Extensive Intracerebral Calcification in Patients with ß-Thalassemia Major
  132. Research letter. The sickle cell gene frequency in Southern Iran
  133. Mathematical Equivalent of Metabolic Alkalosis Part of the Goldberg Acid–Base Map 
  134. Therapeutic Values of Different Routes of Administration of Vitamin A with Ferrous Sulfate in Treating Deferoxamin-Induced Iron-Deficiency Anemia.
  135. Temperature Correction of the Calculated Alveolar Oxygen Tension 
  136. A simple method for the derivation of the international normalized ratio for the reporting of prothrombin time results