Erschienen in:
01.07.2011 | Editorial
2011 – year of the bold step?
verfasst von:
Øystein E. Olsen, Catherine M. Owens
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Radiology
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Ausgabe 7/2011
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Excerpt
According to one of the commissioned articles by Andronikou et al. [
1], only 2% of the original research articles published in
Pediatric Radiology in recent years originated in Africa. At the 2011 International Paediatric Radiology Congress in London, of a total of 620 accepted abstracts, only 32 (5.2%) are from developing countries in Asia, and 11 (1.8%) from Africa.
Pediatric Radiology attempts to move at least some attention from the western world and to stimulate and accommodate invited contributions from colleagues in developing countries. This began with the HIV mini-symposium in 2009, and continues in this edition with two commissioned papers by Andronikou and coworkers [
1,
2]. …