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49-496: The journal is abstracted and indexed in Index Medicus / MEDLINE / PubMed . According to Journal Citation Reports , the journal's 2021 impact factor is 29.907, ranking it 3rd out of 212 titles in the category "Clinical Neurology". This article about a neurology journal is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about academic journals . Further suggestions might be found on

98-605: A bachelor's degree. Furthermore, he proposed that the curriculum be a four-year program consisting of small-sized classes. Billings' proposed medical curricula and partitioning of faculty into departments based on specialties laid the foundation for the resurgence of modern medical schools in the United States. Department chairs of the medical school were jointly the heads of services at the Hopkins hospital, allowing both organizations to benefit from their expertise. Billings also played

147-468: A cancer of the lip in 1890 and was diagnosed with biliary calculus, causing him to undergo operation for his cancer and for the removal of his gallbladder. Billings died of pneumonia on March 11, 1913, following an operation for urinary calculus at the age of 74 in New York City . He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with military honors. His portrait, painted by Cecilia Beaux , hangs in

196-588: A continuing career in hospital planning. Despite many changes since opening in 1889, the main entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital remains the same and is known as the Billing's Building. Billings married Kate M. Stevens on September 3, 1862, in St. John's Church, in Georgetown . They had five children. His wife died on August 19, 1912, which was a tremendous blow to Billings. During the last several years of his life, he developed

245-725: A hiatus between 1899 and 1902. During this hiatus, a similar index, the Bibliographia medica , was published in French by the Institut de Bibliographie in Paris . The edition was edited by Charles Richet , Henri de Rothschild and G.M. Debove, while Marcel Baudoin ruled as editor in chief and also as director of the Parish institute of bibliography. The first volume of Index Medicus appeared in January 1879 and

294-729: A new hospital in West Philadelphia . After serving as the executive officer at the hospital for several months, he was directed to the Army of the Potomac in March 1863 and was assigned to Sykes' Division of Meade's Corps in the 11th Infantry Regiment . After the Civil War , Billings assumed direction of the Army Surgeon General's library from about 1867 to 1895. During this time, Billings expanded

343-482: A postmaster. During his childhood, Billings received education in both Providence, Rhode Island and Indiana . He inherited his mother's love for reading and learned Latin and Greek . Due to his love for learning and education, he agreed to renounce any inheritance if his father allowed him to attend college. In 1852, at the age of fourteen, Billings entered Miami University in Oxford, Ohio . Through his five years at

392-539: A significant role in the determination of the philosophy, structure, organization, and faculty of the Johns Hopkins Medical School . Billings emphasized Hopkins' Medical School's unique location in Baltimore as something to be taken fully advantage of, knowing its potential for research about illnesses as well as the capacity to treat them effectively. Billings' therefore pressed for clinical laboratories at

441-505: A subset of the journals it covers. In the 1960s, the NLM began computerizing the indexing work by creating MEDLARS , a bibliographic database , which became MEDLINE (MEDLARS online) in 1971 when the NLM offered MEDLARS searches "online" to other medical libraries, and remote computers able to log into the NLM MEDLARS system. Index Medicus thus (after 1965) became the print presentation of

490-571: A vast superset), caused the use of MEDLINE's print output, Index Medicus , to drop precipitously. In 2004, print publication ceased. Today, Index Medicus and Abridged Index Medicus still exist conceptually as content curation services that curate MEDLINE content into search subsets or database views (in other words, subsets of MEDLINE records from some journals but not others). Biomedical journals indexed in MEDLINE, as well as those listed in Index Medicus , are almost always quality journals because

539-492: Is “America's greatest contribution to medical knowledge.” The function of Index Medicus is to give people around the world access to quality medical journal literature. To this end, the publishers of Index Medicus must perform at least two vital activities: determine which literature is good (has quality) and provide access. Early in the history of Index Medicus, quality was determined by manually sifting through publications and choosing what subjectively seemed good, but later

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588-469: The Index Medicus . Billings supervised the collection and tabulation of vital statistics for the 1880 and 1890 and worked with the compilation of statistics. He played an important role as he introduced the punch-card system of calculating vital statistics with electro-mechanical methods, which was then implemented into the 1890 census; indeed, it was his idea that led to Herman Hollerith designing

637-575: The American Civil War . He played a significant role in designing the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore , making the plans and perfecting the layout perfect for teaching. Billings also helped plan the building of six other institutions, including another hospital. He is recognized for the contributions he made to the U.S. Army . His successful organization of army hospitals set him up for

686-537: The International Review in January, 1880. In his article, he outlines the cause of the disease to be "a minute organism somewhat like the yeast plant, or it may be the product of such an organism, like alcohol". In addition to detailing the probable cause of the disease, Billings also wrote about observations he saw regarding the patients. These observations included where they had contracted they illness, physical symptoms, and possible transmission. He elaborates on

735-715: The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine . Billings was born on April 12, 1838, in Allensville, Indiana . In the century before, his father's family moved to Syracuse, New York , after leaving England in 1654. His father was born in Saratoga, New York , and was kin of William Billings. Billings' mother, Abby Shaw Billings, was born in Raynham, Massachusetts . In 1843, Billings' family moved to Rhode Island , but in 1848 returned to Allensville, Indiana due to his father's relocation as

784-632: The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). MeSH is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary, and indexers paid by the publisher go through all articles to be included in the Index and identify each article with several, key concepts (each represented by a term) from MeSH. The paper publication of Index Medicus would then show a listing of the MeSH terms with pointers to each citation that was indexed with that term, and users could find relevant literature by going from

833-800: The Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus (QCIM) in 1927 and the AMA continued to publish this until 1956. From 1960 to 2004 the printed edition was published by the National Library of Medicine under the name Index Medicus/Cumulated Index Medicus (IM/CIM). An abridged version was published from 1970 to 1997 as the Abridged Index Medicus . Harold Jones was editor from 1936 to 1945; Frank Rogers , from 1949 to 1963; Clifford Bachrach from 1969 to 1985; Roy Rada from 1985 to 1988; and from 1988 until it ceased paper publication in 2004 it

882-490: The 1990s, the dissemination of home internet connections, the launch of the Web and web browsers , and the launch of PubMed greatly accelerated the shift of online access to MEDLINE from something one did at the library to something one did anywhere. This dissemination, along with the superior usability of search compared with use of a print index in serving the user's purpose (which is to distill relevant subsets of information from

931-525: The Census Office, Herman Hollerith . This was the origin of the computer punch card system that dominated statistical data manipulation until the 1970s. The punch cards were first used when Billings acted as a supervisor for the eleventh (1890) census , and were quickly adapted by census bureaus, insurance companies and large corporations around the world. He came up with the idea for the library when working on his doctoral thesis when he discovered that there

980-465: The Editor of Index Medicus convened a committee of world experts to identify the world's best medical journals and then have citations for articles from those journals made accessible. Inclusion into the Index Medicus is not automatic and depends on a journal's scientific policy and scientific quality. The journal selection criteria are evaluated by the "Literature Selection Technical Review Committee" and

1029-561: The MEDLINE database's content, which users accessed usually by visiting a library which subscribed to Index Medicus (for example, a university scientist at the university library ). It continued in this role through the 1980s and 1990s, while various electronic presentations of MEDLINE's content also evolved, first with proprietary online services (accessed mostly at libraries) and later with CD-ROMs , then with Entrez and PubMed (1996). As users gradually migrated from print to online use, Index Medicus print subscriptions dwindled. During

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1078-461: The National Board of Health surveyed citizens of Memphis, Tennessee, in order to gather data regarding the outbreak of yellow fever in the city. His recommendations to the city board members regarding the sanitation policies were described as a "miracle tonic" by local newspapers as yellow fever cases dropped following his visit. Billings details his findings about the disease in his article found in

1127-478: The National Library of Medicine will not index junk journals . (See the External links , below, for links to pages on the National Library of Medicine website that contain a list of journals indexed in MEDLINE; journals listed in Index Medicus ; and a list of Abridged Index Medicus journals (also known as "Core clinical" journals). John Shaw Billings John Shaw Billings (April 12, 1838 – March 11, 1913)

1176-706: The School of Medicine, an idea inspired by other prestigious institutions such as Harvard and schools in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Between 1869 and 1874, Billings was asked by the Secretary of the Treasury to inspect and report upon the hygienic conditions of the Marine Hospital Service . With this appointment, Billings was required to travel across the United States in order to inspect and provide recommendations for improving

1225-488: The article's talk page . Index Medicus Index Medicus ( IM ) is a curated subset of MEDLINE , which is a bibliographic database of life science and biomedical science information, principally scientific journal articles. From 1879 to 2004, Index Medicus was a comprehensive bibliographic index of such articles in the form of a print index or (in later years) its onscreen equivalent. Medical history experts have said of Index Medicus that it

1274-696: The collection practices of Billings, and eventually served as Director of NYPL from 1934 to 1941. Billings was the senior editor of books reporting the work of the Committee of Fifty to Investigate the Liquor Problem in the early 1900s. The committee researched the activities and publications of the Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Billings' involvement with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore began in

1323-578: The construction of sixty-five branch libraries throughout New York City and 2,509 libraries in cities and towns across North America and Great Britain . During the library's construction, Billings directed the re-cataloging of the works from the Lenox, Tilden, and Astor Foundations, which were used to form the Library in 1895. Billings also recruited a young man named Harry Miller Lydenberg to work as his personal assistant and head of reference. Lydenberg expanded upon

1372-444: The context of the hospital's environment, which was a crucial factor to consider in light of Baltimore's varying weather. In addition, Billings' intentionally included electrical wiring in his plans, at a time where electricity was not fully accessible by the hospital, highlighting his capacities in design. It is due to his contributions that the building with the hospital's trademark dome was subsequently named for Billings. Billings

1421-422: The final decision is made by the NLM director. The review process may include outside reviewers and journals may be dropped from inclusion. From 1879 till the computer age, access was provided solely by paper publication of the Index. The challenge was how to structure this index so as to make it most useful. To that end, the publishers of Index Medicus created an indexing language. Later this language became

1470-530: The hospital service was take the organization methods out of political hands and affiliate it with those with military methods of organization. This became known as the Public Health Service , which is the branch of government that works with the medical personnel of the Army and Navy to further preventive medicine. In 1879, Billings with Dr. Charles F. Folsom, Colonel George E. Waring, Jr., and other members of

1519-434: The initial faculty for Johns Hopkins University. He drafted organization and construction plans for the hospital in 1873 and also recommended the construction pavilion plan, which soon became a plan utilized across the nation. The design of the hospital was inspired by Billings' trips to several hospitals throughout Europe, where he learned the importance of cleanliness. He took European ideas of ventilation and applied them in

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1568-631: The initial punch-card tabulator that is often credited with inaugurating the development of modern computers. After he left the Surgeon General's Office, he united the libraries in New York City between 1896 and 1913 to form the New York Public Library . The punch-card system he introduced in the U.S. censuses was further used in the New York Public Library construction. Billings inspired Andrew Carnegie to provide $ 5 million for

1617-404: The late 1870s with the initiation of his plans for the hospital and ended in 1889 with his rejection of the position of hospital superintendent. Billings is renowned for his work of planning the construction of Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is credited with designing the original buildings of Johns Hopkins Hospital, which opened in 1889, as well as conducting the national and international search for

1666-486: The library from 2,300 to 124,000 volumes, making it the largest medical library in the Americas. When Billings inherited the library, its contents were listed primarily by author and secondarily by subject. Billings redesigned the catalog with author and subject indexes. However, his catalog could not meet the demands of increased publications, so he created a separate indexing system for medical periodicals, which became known as

1715-512: The operations implemented at the time. Billings relocated to Cincinnati , where he began a surgical practice. Hoping to improve hospital service on the battlefield, he became the anatomy demonstrator at the Cincinnati's Medical College. However, in 1861, he declined an offer to become a surgeon assistant. Instead in 1861, Billings went in for an examination for the regular army, becoming first of his class. However, no vacant spots were available in

1764-452: The organization of the military hospitals. With his growing credibility in the medical field, Billings oversaw work done to aid those struggling with yellow fever . He also served as medical advisor to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore , and authored reports regarding criteria for medical and nursing curricula and hospital design. Billings made notable contributions to Johns Hopkins Hospital's architecture, infrastructure, and curriculum for

1813-406: The primary advisor to Gilman , in charge of engineering and implementing the initial educational infrastructure of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine . During a time when masses of students were trained to become doctors, Billings made decisions to ensure the quality of the students who entered and graduated the School of Medicine. To achieve this, Billings harshened entrance requirements by requiring

1862-564: The regular corps, so he was appointed to be an assistant surgeon in Union Hospital in Georgetown in Washington, D.C. The year after, on April 16, Billings was commissioned first lieutenant, and then took charge of Cliffburne Hospital's development in Georgetown after Union Hospital's operations relocated to Cliffburne. In August of that year, he was transferred to Satterlee General Hospital ,

1911-589: The sanitations policies of the hospitals. In accordance to Billings' recommendations, the Secretary of the Treasury acknowledged Billings' contributions to improving the hospitals by saying, "The condition of the marine hospitals has been improved during the past year. This result is largely due to Dr. J. S. Billings, of the Surgeon-General's Office, who has visited nearly all of them, and through whose advice many important changes have been made." His main contribution to

1960-587: The term to the citation. Index Medicus was begun by John Shaw Billings , head of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office , United States Army . This library later evolved into the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM). For such a major publication over many years the history naturally involved many changes as people died and sources of funding changed. Index Medicus publication began in 1879 and continued monthly through 1926, with

2009-613: The transmission process by saying in his article, "yellow fever can't go anywhere unless yer tote it", which served as the early theory for spread of yellow fever by mosquitoes. A senior surgeon in the war, Billings built the Library of the Surgeon General's Office , which is now the National Library of Medicine and is the centerpiece of modern medical information systems. Billings figured out how to analyze medical and demographic data mechanically by turning it into numbers and punching onto cardboard cards as developed by his assistant at

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2058-474: The university, he spent most of his time reading in the library. In 1857, Billings graduated from Miami University second in his class and was admitted a year later to Cincinnati's Medical College of Ohio, today the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Billings received his medical degree in 1860. His thesis, The Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy , drew attention from the faculty as an accurate description of

2107-551: Was Editor from 1918 to 1932 when Index Medicus was suspended from 1933 to 1936 due to the Great Depression . For the 125 years that Index Medicus was published in paper form, getting funding was a challenge, and in 1927 the American Medical Association began publishing it. The Index Medicus was amalgamated with the American Medical Association 's Quarterly Cumulative Index to Current Literature (QCICL) as

2156-545: Was an American librarian , building designer, and surgeon who modernized the Library of the Surgeon General's Office in the United States Army . His work with Andrew Carnegie led to the development and his service as the first director of the New York Public Library . Billings oversaw the building of the Surgeon General's Library, which was the nation's first comprehensive library for medicine. Because of his approach to improving public health and hospitals, Billings

2205-457: Was asked to head the U.S. Census Bureau 's Vital Statistics division, where he oversaw statistical compilation of censuses . With Robert Fletcher, Billings developed Index Medicus , a monthly guide to contemporary medicine that was published for sixteen months until Billings' retirement from the Medical Museum and Library. Billings aided the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in adjusting

2254-506: Was involved in the hospital's infrastructure, as he wrote numerous reports regarding the training of hospital staff and the organization of the hospital administration. He understood the importance of choosing who works in the hospital. By hiring the right people, Billings believed a lot of medical errors could be avoided, thus improving the efficacy of the hospital. One of such people was William Henry Welch , whom he recommended to President Daniel Coit Gilman for hiring. Billings served as

2303-453: Was listed as compiled under the supervision of John Shaw Billings and Robert Fletcher, while later volumes were listed as co-edited by Billings and Fletcher. Billings retired from the National Library of Medicine in 1895. For most of the period from 1876 to 1912 Robert Fletcher was the Editor or Co-editor of Index Medicus. In 1903 Fielding Garrison became Co-editor and continued as Editor or Co-editor until 1917. Albert Allemann

2352-416: Was not one library that had the resources needed for his research. To fix this, John Shaw Billings built a collection and also created Index-catalogues. By the time Billings retired from the army, he had already collected 116,847 books and 191,598 pamphlets. This collection made up the National Library of Medicine and it has grown ever since. Billings was known for his expertise in hospital construction since

2401-507: Was produced by the NLM's Bibliographic Services Division. The abridged edition is a subset of the journals covered by PubMed ("core clinical journals"). The last issue of Index Medicus was published in December 2004 (Volume 45). The stated reason for discontinuing the printed publication was that online resources had supplanted it, most especially PubMed , which continues to include the Index as

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