Editorial: KMJ AND CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF PUBLISHED RESEARCH

Research is the basis of scientific innovations and proliferation over the ages and scientific journals are responsible for dissemination of new research to the readers. In 17th century the 1st scientific French journal “Journal des Savants” was launched. The medical journals were started in 18th century. The Lancet was founded by Thomas Wakley in 1823. Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal (now published as BMJ-British Medical Journal) was launched in October 1840. Since then, the number of scientific research journals including medical journals is increasing day by day and the amount of research available for readers of medical journals is beyond our expectations. MEDLINE, compiled by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the world’s leading source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information. It contains about eleven million records from over 7,300 different publications from 1965 to 2005