Journals

Publishing your research is imperative, but it is not always easy to know where to publish.

 

Online database of healthcare journals

The RCN Research Society have long been advocates for encouraging nurses to disseminate their research, and for many years now, have facilitated fringe meetings for journal editors at the RCN annual international nursing research conference.

The feedback from one of these fringe events led to the creation of the online database of healthcare journals below: a list of journals whose editors are particularly committed to encouraging more nurses to publish their work. Each journal entry has details of: focus of journal, types of article wanted, target audience, frequency, editor, contact, instructions to authors and the website link.

This online database was last revised on 21 March 2013.

Journals A - D

  • Asia Pacific Family Medicine
  • Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care 
  • BMC Medical Education
  • BMC Nursing
  • BMC Palliative Care
  • British Journal of Cardiac Nursing
  • British Journal of Community Nursing
  • British Journal of Healthcare Assistants
  • British Journal of Mental Health Nursing
  • British Journal of Midwifery
  • British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing
  • British Journal of Nursing
  • British Journal of School Nursing 
  • Cancer Nursing Practice
  • Critical Care
  • Diversity in Health and Social Care

Journals E - I

  • Emergency Nurse
  • European Diabetes Nursing
  • European Journal of Cancer Care
  • Evidence Based Nursing
  • Frontline Gastroenterology
  • Gastrointestinal Nursing
  • Health and Social Care in the Community
  • Implementation Science
  • Informatics for Health and Social Care
  • International Emergency Nursing
  • International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
  • International Journal of Nursing Knowledge
  • International Journal of Nursing Practice
  • International Journal of Nursing Studies
  • International Journal of Older People Nursing
  • International Journal of Palliative Nursing
  • International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation
  • International Journal of Urological Nursing
  • International Nursing Review
  • International Practice Development Journal

Journals J

  • Japan Journal of Nursing Science
  • Journal of Advanced Nursing
  • Journal of Aesthetic Nursing
  • Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
  • Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing
  • Journal of Child Health Care
  • Journal of Clinical Nursing
  • Journal of Emergency Nursing
  • Journal of Healthcare Quality
  • Journal of Health Visiting
  • Journal of Interprofessional Care
  • Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health
  • Journal of Mixed Methods Research
  • Journal of Nursing Interventions
  • Journal of Nursing Management
  • Journal of Nursing Scholarship
  • Journal of Pain Management
  • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
  • Journal of Public Mental Health
  • Journal of Renal Care
  • Journal of Research in Nursing
  • Journal of Rural Health
  • Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing
  • Journal of Wound Care

Journals K - N

  • Latin American Journal of Nursing (Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem)
  • Learning Disability Practice
  • Mental Health Practice
  • Midwifery. An International Journal
  • Nurse Author & Editor
  • Nurse Education in Practice
  • Nurse Education Today
  • Nurse Prescribing
  • Nurse Researcher
  • Nursing Children and Young People
  • Nursing in Critical Care
  • Nursing Forum
  • Nursing and Health Sciences
  • Nursing Inquiry
  • Nursing Management
  • Nursing Older People
  • Nursing Philosophy
  • Nursing and Residential Care
  • Nursing Standard

Journals O - Z

  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
  • Practice Nursing
  • Primary Health Care
  • Public Health Nursing
  • Quality in Ageing and Older Adults
  • Quality in Primary Care
  • Rehabilitation Nursing
  • Research in Nursing and Health 
  • Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
  • Wiley-Blackwell 
  • Worldviews on Evidence Based Nursing

RCN members can access the full-text of many of these journals through their RCN membership subscription. Go to RCN Library Services and archives to find out more.

If you are aware of any other relevant journals you would like to see listed here, please contact Dave O'Carroll. Also, if you are an editor of a journal and would like to be included in the list, please complete the attached pro-forma (MS Word, 28K) and email the form to Dave O'Carroll, david.ocarroll@rcn.org.uk

 

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