Journals accepting case reports

Terri Gotschall; Angela Spencer; Margaret A. Hoogland; Elisa Cortez; Elizabeth Irish

doi:10.5195/jmla.2023.1747

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Terri Gotschall Scholarly Communications Librarian, Health Sciences Library, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6397-1299
Angela Spencer Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6233-053X
Margaret A. Hoogland Associate Professor, University Libraries, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9932-3605
Elisa Cortez Medical Education and Clinical Outreach Librarian, UC Riverside Library, Orbach Science Library, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9755-7218
Elizabeth Irish Associate Professor, Schaffer Library of Health Sciences, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0993-4195

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2023.1747

Keywords:

Case Reports, Journals, Publishing

Abstract

Background: Few resources exist to support finding journals that accept case reports by specialty. In 2016, Katherine Akers compiled a list of 160 journals that accepted case reports, which many librarians continue to use 7 years later. Because journals’ editorial policies and submission guidelines evolve, finding publication venues for case reports poses a dynamic problem, consisting of reviewing a journal’s author guidelines to determine if the journal accepts case report manuscripts. This project aimed to create a more up to date and extensive list of journals that currently accept case reports.

Case Presentation: 1,874 journal titles were downloaded from PubMed. The team reviewed each journal and identified journal titles that accept case reports. Additional inclusion factors included being indexed in MEDLINE, accessible on the internet, and accepting and publishing English language submissions.

Discussion: The new journal list includes 1,028 journals covering 129 specialties and is available on the Open Science Framework public page.

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