Research Guides: Finding the Right Journal For Your Research: Journal Fit

What type of article are you writing?

If you have a particular journal in mind, go to their website and see what article types they accept.

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To find journals that publish on your topic AND publish a specific article type search PubMed for topic and filter to article type (case report, for example)

How to find an unexpected journal to publish in?

Search somewhere different. Below are some possibilities.

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Nursing and allied health.
CINAHL Abstracting and Indexing Database
Nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, nurse educators and students depend on the CINAHL Database to research their subject areas from this authoritative index of nursing and allied health journals. CINAHL indexes the top nursing and allied health literature available including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. CINAHL also includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 1,446 active global OA journals.  Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.
Subject Headings
CINAHL Subject Headings help users effectively search and retrieve information and follow the structure of the Medical Subject headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine. These Subject Headings help researchers find new concepts, including COVID-19, social distancing and vaping as well as local terminology.
Content Includes
3,814 active indexed and abstracted journals
3,461 active peer-reviewed indexed and abstracted journals
1,312 journals with searchable cited references
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
All academic disciplines and topics.

Directory of Open Access Journals
A searchable database of academic and scholarly open access journals.

Where are your collaborators, mentors, colleagues publishing?

Find out where they are publishing by finding their CV.

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Search for collaborators, mentors, colleagues in PubMed.
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Search for collaborators, mentors, colleagues in Google Scholar.

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