Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Apr 2001
Retracted PublicationRetracted: Price development in important anesthesia and critical care medicine journals in comparison to journals of other disciplines.
In today's climate of financial restrictions, libraries and individual subscribers complain about the price increase of scientific journals. The development in prices of anesthesia/critical care journals was analysed over the past 6 years and compared to prices of some journals of other disciplines. ⋯ A disproportionate rise in journal prices was seen over the past 6 years. The large increase in cost may have multiple reasons. The rapidly increasing cost of research journals may affect research quality because economic pressure may result in reduction in availibility of information due to cancellation of subscriptions to journals.