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Clinical Research: Submit a Manuscript

Resources Guide for Clinical Research

Instructions to Authors

Instructions to Authors
Most popular collection of instrutions to authors from over 6,000 journals in the health and life sciences

Instruction to authors from different journals:

Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals
Formerly known as Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME).

Peer Review

What Is a Refereed/Peer Reviewed Journal Article?
Succinct description of the proccess
Peer Reviewed Journals
Online tutorial from Northeastern State University Libraries
Thomas R. Understanding the peer review process. World J Surg 2006;30(8):1366-7.
Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory
Finding out if a journal is peer-reviewed/refereed

Journal Impact Factor

Journal of Citation Reports Discusses Impact Factors
Journal Impact Factors
From Wake Forest University
Kurmis, A. (2003). Understanding the limitations of the journal impact factor. The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume, 85-A(12), 2449-54.
Citation Analysis Website Created by Wade Lee
Information on journal impact; accessing journal citation reports

Journal Citation Reports : JCR
Contains aggregated citation data for over 10,000 journals from 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. Divided into two different databases: Science Edition and Social Sciences edition.
Web of Science Core Collection
Portal to several databases that index scholarly and technical literature in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

NIH Public Access Policy

NIH Public Access Policy
"It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PMC (formerly PubMed Central) upon acceptance for publication."

Is your research NIH-funded? Please read the NIH public access policy.

What Is PMCID in Citations?
"Anyone submitting an application, proposal or report to the NIH must include the PMC reference number (PMCID) when citing applicable papers that they author or that arise from their NIH-funded research."

PMC (formerly PubMed Central)
NIH free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature

Open Access Journals-Alternative Ways of Publishing Your Research

BioMed Central
Online, open-access journal publisher of over 200 open access journals
PLoS ONE
An international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication
Open Access Overview by Peter Suber