Publication Audit - a useful tool to evaluate progress and plan for the future

Publication audit is considered a useful tool to evaluate the progress and plan for the future and we have been doing this exercise for the last couple of years.1-3 a careful look at the statistics for the year 2014 reveals that there has been an increase in the number of submissions, a trend seen for the last few years consecutively. during the year 2014, 1577 manuscripts were received from different countries. table-i. a vast majority of the submissions were from china 524 followed by turkey 441, pakistan 255, islamic republic of iran 107 and kingdom of saudi arabia 88.