scholarly journals A Dozen Years, A Dozen Roses

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
José Florencio F. Lapeña
Keyword(s):  
Head And Neck ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Neck Surgery ◽  
Associate Editor ◽  
Head And Neck Surgery ◽  
Plagiarism Detection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Extensible Markup ◽  
Knowledge Platform

Twelve years have passed since my first editorial for the Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, on the occasion of the silver anniversary of our journal and the golden anniversary of the Philippine Society of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (PSO-HNS).1 Special editorials have similarly marked our thirtieth (pearl)2 and thirty-fifth (coral or jade)3 journal anniversaries, punctuating editorials on a variety of themes in between. Whether they were a commentary on issues and events in the PSO-HNS or Philippine Society, or on matters pertaining to medical research and writing, publication and peer review, I have often wondered whether my words fell on deaf ears. But write, must I-- despite my writer’s doubt.   What then, do a dozen years symbolize? As a baby boomer, I am all too familiar with what “cheaper by the dozen” meant in daily life, outwardly displayed in the matching attire my siblings and I wore on special occasions -- such as Yuletide when we would sing the carol “twelve days of Christmas.”4 We read the comedy “Twelfth Night”5 in school, although I admittedly enjoyed “The Dirty Dozen”6 more than Shakespeare. College ROTC introduced me to the “Daily Dozen” and the grueling Navy count- 1,2,3, ONE! One, two, three, TWO! (One, two, three, four! I love the Marine Corps!) And that is as far as my list of memorable dozens goes, covering five dozen years of life.   Of these, one fifth or 20% of my life has been devoted to our journal. From that perspective, I cannot help but wonder whether, or how it mattered. After 12 years, the day-to-day routine has hardly changed; neither have the periodic problems that precede the birth of each issue. I still find it difficult to solicit and follow-up reviews, and I still burn the midnight oil on weekends and holidays, patiently guiding authors in revising their manuscripts. Nevertheless, our journal has come a long way from where it was when we started (although it has not reached as far and as quickly as I would have wanted it to). Much depends on our authors and the caliber of their contributions, and our reviewers and the quality and timeliness of their reviews. However, despite our efforts to conduct education and training sessions on Medical Writing and Peer Review, the new batch of submissions and reviews each year evinces the need to repeat these regularly. In this regard, the increasing response-ability of our associate editors and continuing support of our society are needed to ensure our progress.   This year, we welcome Dr. Eris Llanes as our new Managing Editor as we thank and congratulate Dr. Tony Chua (who retains his position as Associate Editor) for serving in that role for the past 12 years. We have finally migrated from our previous platform to the Public Knowledge Platform - Open Journal Systems (PKP-OJS) available from https://pjohns.pso-hns.org/index.php/pjohns/index. The PSO-HNS has become a member of the Publishers International Linking Association (PILA), which manages and maintains, deposits and retrieves, Metadata and Digital Identifiers inclusive of associated software and know-how. This will enable us to register Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for all our content using the Crossref® system (https://www.crossref.org/about/), making our “research outputs easy to find, cite, link, and assess.”7 We are also subscribing to the Crossref® Similarity Check plagiarism detection software service powered by iThenticate® (https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check/)7 and are exploring ways and means of converting all our articles to eXtensible Markup Language (XML) format. These steps reflect our continuing efforts to comply with the requirements for indexing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)8 and our re-application for indexing in Scopus®.9 These steps would not have been possible without the full support of the PSO-HNS Board of Trustees under the leadership of our President, Dr. Aggie Remulla, for which we are truly grateful.   Indeed, the past 12 years may represent a complete cycle (such as 12 hours on a clock, or months in a year, or 12 signs of the zodiac), the first steps in the rebirth of our journal. Although they may not count among the “memorable dozens” of my life, each of these years may be likened to a rose (with its attendant thorns) – a bouquet of a dozen roses that I offer to all of you. “for there’s no rose without a thorn, no night without the morn, no gain without some meaningful loss …”10  

scholarly journals Blood and Foliage: Coral Red and Jade Green

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
José Florencio F. Lapeña
Keyword(s):  
Head And Neck ◽  
Neck Surgery ◽  
Head And Neck Surgery ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Red Coral ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Red Color ◽  
Yin And Yang ◽  
One Year

The crimson and forest-green chevrons and piping on the long black academic gowns of surgeons and physicians, respectively, are symbols of blood and foliage, of healing with the knife or with medicaments.1 Most of us are strangers to neither calling, having trained intensively in both these arts and sciences, and many proudly don the red-piped garb of the College of Surgeons as well as the green-striped garments of our Society of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. The latter has seen 60 years come and go, and with these years, many highlights, lowlights, and colleagues who have gone before us.   Red and green are also colors that mark a 35th anniversary with coral and jade, both regarded as precious gems from antiquity. Corallium rubrum (red coral) “combined myth and magic,” as “its bright red color fascinated people in the East and West alike.”2 It has been regarded as the “blood of Medusa, soft and diaphanous under water, as hard as stone in the air,” or a procreative “tree of blood” that “link(ed) with the divine and the supernatural.”2 Green jade, “the Emperor’s Stone,” has been mined and worked in China since prehistoric times, eventually becoming the “royal gem.”3 Red coral, green jade – precious stones on the 35th year of the Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. Coral red, jade green – precious colors that reflect our noble profession.   Red and green are also the colors of Christmas, and their use may be traced back to the “spatial and spiritual border marked by rood screens” in 14th to 16th century medieval churches, “whose symbolism may have carried over to the temporal boundary between the end of one year and the beginning of the next.”4 These elaborately designed dividers featured edifying illustrations of saints and holy scenes in multicolored splendor, but were predominantly green and red. “Iron was one source of red pigment, and copper a source of green pigment, that colored the screens” and because “metallurgy was determined by astronomy,” also closely associated were “Iron with Mars, the masculine, war, and fire” and “Copper with Venus, the feminine, love and water.”4 Hence, the colors people encountered held multiple planes of meaning for them, as they celebrated another year over, a new one begun.   Today, there is much to be thankful for, and much more to remain open to. Our journal has maintained a respected position among its peers, and is ready to move forward. With this issue, we begin granting a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license5 to articles published in the Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, in addition to the copyright already transferred to the Philippine Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery.   This license means that readers are free to share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format under the following terms: Attribution – they must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. They may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in a way that suggests the licensor endorses them or their use. NonCommercial – they may not use the material for commercial purposes. NoDerivatives – if they remix, transform or build upon the material, they may not distribute the modified material.               We hope that this further concretizes our response to the Manila Declaration on the Availability and Use of health Research Information6 and eventually qualifies us for inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals.7 In support of this, we conducted a Basic Medical Writing Workshop for authors last March 19, 2016 and a two-day Research Technical Review Workshop for reviewers last April 29-30 hosted by the PSOHNS, and plan to continue doing so. We are seriously negotiating for migration from our current online platform to one that will better serve our needs, and those of our readers. We will soon activate our social media presence as well.   Indeed, we all are yin and yang, you and I, red coral and green jade. We draw blood, and apply herbal poultices. We swim with the flow, yet solidly stand our ground. We don gay apparel of coral red and jade green, and merrily yet solemnly celebrate. Mabuhay!

scholarly journals Robotics in otorhinolaryngology – head and neck surgery

2018 ◽  
Vol 100 (Supplement 7) ◽  
pp. 34-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Garas ◽  
Neil Tolley
Keyword(s):  
Head And Neck ◽  
Neck Surgery ◽  
Head And Neck Surgery ◽  
The Past

A look at the past, present and future

scholarly journals Silver and Gold: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
José Florencio F. Lapeña
Keyword(s):  
Head And Neck ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Neck Surgery ◽  
Production Quality ◽  
Head And Neck Surgery ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Case Review ◽  
Review Section ◽  
The Past

“Where are we headed, oh where have we gone? We’ve come a long way, now let us move on. Dreams are for dreaming, wake up and they run; Life is for living, come, let us move on1”   A quarter of a century ago, Dr. Angel Enriquez en-fleshed for us the opportunity to achieve “immortality in print” at a time when our society was celebrating its silver jubilee. Through the years, our journal has allowed us to disseminate ideas, chronicle discoveries, share knowledge and broadcast our dreams and aspirations beyond the confines of our circles. At the same time, our journal has served as a sounding board, monitoring the pulse of our society and the various contexts in which it lives and breathes and has being. The relationship has been and should rightfully be reciprocal: both journal and society react to and influence each other, while being influenced by and impacting the social, cultural, political, economic and environmental forces in the spatio-temporal contexts in which they exist. But existence means not merely “being” but “standing-forth.” While the various editors in chief have reflected their particular zeitgeists, they likewise stood out, leaving their imprints on the sands of time. For the first eight years, Angel E. Enriquez (1981-1988) nurtured & cared for his “baby” as editor, advertiser, distributor & newsboy all rolled into one. Though not surpassed, these efforts were at least equaled by Eusebio E. Llamas (1989-1990), who was succeeded by Alfredo QY Pontejos Jr (1990). Another eight year streak saw untiring efforts to improve the journal and, through it, our society by Joselito C. Jamir (1991- 98), paving the way for Jose M. Acuin (1999-2000) to professionalize the journal, aiming for indexing by Medline and Index Medicus by heroically publishing quarterly issues. The past five years saw Charlotte M. Chiong (2001-2005) at the helm, almost single-handedly performing the herculean task of bringing the journal to where it is today. If there is anything at all to be gleaned from a review of past editorials, it is a humbling, awe-inspiring realization of how each individually made their mark and of how tough an act to follow they collectively are. As we celebrate the silver anniversary of the Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in the golden jubilee year of the Philippine Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, let us take the best from the past-- from Dr. Enriquez’ dreams to feature “Grand Rounds, Book Reviews, X-ray of the year” to Dr. Chiong’s aspirations to include a pathology case review section, review articles, proceedings of meetings, conventions and website publication in this “electronic era” of information technology, let us move on to the future with an internationally peer-reviewed publication that will be someday be indexed in Medline and Index Medicus2 and included in the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Master Journal list3. To this end, we reiterate our adherence to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors4. We are now available from http://www.psohns.org.ph/pjohns. Our new Editorial Board includes international scholars with impressive publishing records and citation indices. We have an equally august international group of peer reviewers who graciously agreed to help us gratis et amore. This issue features two international source articles. We are especially grateful to friends, alumni and colleagues overseas who choose to publish in our journal rather than in more prestigious, indexed titles. With your support, we trust that the scope and coverage, and quality of editorial work and content of our journal will continue growing in breadth and depth over the next five to eight years. We are thankful to Natividad Almazan-Aguilar, President of the PSOHNS and its Board of Trustees 2005 for entrusting us with the privilege of serving you through the Philipp J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. We trust that future leaders of our Society infuse the journal with the much-needed financial and management support necessary to ensure production quality (layout, printing, graphics, illustrations) and “that services and products of contractors, vendors, and other commercial interests required for proper publication are selected on the basis of merit5”. We invite you to consider your vital role in revitalizing our journal: surely it deserves much more than “second-choice” articles and PhP100.00 in annual journal fees? Through our journal, let us be “informed” of what has “transpired” so that being “inspired,” we can work to “transform” ourselves, our colleagues, our patients, our society and our world for the better.   Mabuhay tayong lahat!

scholarly journals Message

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Cecilia Gretchen Navarro-Locsin
Keyword(s):  
Head And Neck ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Surgical Techniques ◽  
Neck Surgery ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Head And Neck Surgery ◽  
The Past ◽  
Good Reading

Greetings! This year marks the 64th year of the Philippine Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. It is a defining year, marked by both national and international events that changed and will most likely continue to change medical practice, public health policy, socio-economic concepts and structures. The SARS-coronavirus-2 (COVID-19) pandemic crashed into the first quarter of 2020 unannounced and with great fury. This great unknown served as the impetus for a flurry of research into every aspect of the disease – its origins, biology, clinical course, and treatment. It initiated an unprecedented interest in research, not just among scientists and clinicians, but most especially amongst the general population. But what is RESEARCH? Re-search - to look again at the past with spectacles, to look at the past with new eyes, to look at the present with a microscope, and to look at the far distance with binoculars – all to better see & perhaps to find answers to our questions. Research fuels the evidence base of our understanding of diseases and the principles of our clinical and surgical practice. Our specialty of Otolaryngology, during this time of the pandemic, will be at the forefront of an exciting time for a renewed quest for knowledge. And what better vehicle to transport us into this new and uncharted world than the Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery? It is a testament to the unparalleled dedication of the editor-in-chief and editorial staff and the enthusiasm of the contributors, that every year the PJOHNS publishes interesting case reports, relevant descriptive and analytical studies, papers on surgical techniques & instrument innovations, and insightful commentaries. The journal is a platform for our questions and hypotheses. The journal is a venue for our discoveries. But most importantly, the journal is a celebration of our passion for Otolaryngology.                 Good reading to all!   Cecilia Gretchen S. Navarro – Locsin, MD President Philippine Society of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Role of new volumetric imaging technology in otorhinolaryngology

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-90
Author(s):  
S. E. Farikov ◽  
◽  
Yu. Yu. Rusetskii ◽  
N. D. Chuchueva ◽  
O. V. Chernova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Head And Neck ◽  
Neck Surgery ◽  
Head And Neck Surgery ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Volumetric Imaging ◽  
Valuable Alternative ◽  
The Past ◽  
Quality Imaging

High-quality imaging is essential in head and neck surgery. The development of technologies allows us to solve many problems on the way to high-quality and high-precision microsurgery. The emergence and use of volumetric exoscopy over the past few years has found some response in many microsurgical specialties, including otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery. A survey analysis of publications on this topic suggests that 3D exoscopy can be a valuable alternative to the microscope in head and neck surgery.

Is the Program-Specific Paragraph Responsible for Declining Application Numbers? A Commentary

2018 ◽  
Vol 158 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Head And Neck ◽  
Neck Surgery ◽  
Head And Neck Surgery ◽  
The Past

An alarming trend of declining applications to otolaryngology–head and neck surgery has surfaced over the past 3 years. There are many possible explanations for this decline, and a recent publication has implicated “impossible” qualifications as the reason for this decline. While these qualifications may deter a significant number of potential applicants, they have not changed significantly in the past 5 years and do not seem to explain a sudden decline. This commentary argues that the program-specific paragraph, which was introduced in 2015, may be at least in part responsible.

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