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Highly accessed articles explained
One of this month's most popular case reports is the recently published article by Robin et al., "Multiple myeloma presenting with
high-output heart failure and improving with anti-angiogenesis therapy: two case reports and a review of the literature".
So why has this proved to be so popular with over 600 downloads in under 30 days? Dr Jason Robin (pictured), from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago tells us: "Our team feels that our article greatly contributes to the understanding of heart failure in the setting of multiple myeloma - an extremely difficult to treat condition."
The author also hits upon one of the reasons why open access publishing plays an important role in getting authors' work seen: "We would also like to note that our article, in addition to PubMed, has been seen on the following sites, as well as others, which has increased its visibility, including:
Visit our Top 10 most accessed pages to see more of our most popular articles, or look for the 'Highly accessed' logo that identifies the articles that have been especially highly accessed, relative to their age.
Articles must be at least 14 days old in order to become: 'Highly accessed'. Once an article has qualified as 'Highly accessed' it remains permanently flagged as such - authors may make reference to this achievement when listing their publications.
Publishing your case report in Cases Journal or Journal of Medical Case Reports will give unprecedented access to your case report, by making your work freely available in full to the worldwide community of clinicians and researchers. PubMed, the most popular literature search service, indexes case reports published in both journals without delay.
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