Technology and Quality in Educational Scholarly Communication

In search of educational efficiency: 30 years ofMedical Education's top-cited articles

“…These transformations are partly attributable to the exponential growth of both information technologies and academic publishing, including the standardisation of educational journals . These transformations underscore the nature of academic journals as cultural objects; in this case, such nature is revealed in the evolving structure of Medical Education in terms of both its structure and the content areas for which the journal has created specialised spaces for debate and development, which have become not only relevant, but also perhaps expected spaces for debate in the field. In other words, as a cultural object, the journal reflects the priorities that editors, scholars and practitioners have established in the creation and structure of such spaces.…”