Publishing tool kit: Home

Where's a good place to publish my article? 

For more on where to publish, see our sister guide Where to Publish

How to find out if a journal is good or reputable.

Questions to ask:

• Have you read a few of the articles?
• Would you want your article next to that other article?
• Do you know anyone who’s publishing there?
• Who’s on the editorial board?
• Have you contacted any of the editors to make sure they agreed to be on the editorial board?

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Use to check if the publisher is a member.

Directory of Open Access Journals maintains a whitelist of journals which meet certain standards.  A subset of journals which adhere to best practices get a DOAJ Seal of Approval .

The International Academy of Nursing Editors has a vetted list of reputable nursing journals that meet explicit criteria.

The Health Sciences Library has a subscription to BMJ Case Reports, which includes a waiver of the individual membership fee of $300/year normally required to publish cases in it. 

If you check all the boxes on this checklist, you can submit any of these types of cases:

• Reminder of important clinical lesson
• Findings that shed new light on the possible pathogenesis of a disease or an adverse effect
• Learning from errors
• Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
• Myth exploded
• Rare disease
• New disease
• Novel diagnostic procedure
• Novel treatment (new drug/intervention; established drug/procedure in new situation)
• Unusual association of diseases/symptoms
• Unexpected outcome (positive or negative) including adverse drug reactions
• For global health case reports, use this checklist
• For images in case reports, use this checklist

Use indexes as a means to both find and evaluate journals