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. 

View the nursing journals list - last updated 26 May 2009 (MS Word, 459K)

NB. 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:

  • Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing
  • Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care 
  • British Journal of Cardiac Nursing
  • British Journal of Community Nursing
  • British Journal of Midwifery
  • British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing
  • British Journal of Nursing
  • Cancer Nursing Practice
  • Clinical Leader
  • Community Practitioner
  • Diversity in Health and Social Care
  • ecancermedicalscience
  • Education for Primary Care
  • Emergency Nurse
  • End of Life Care
  • European Diabetes Nursing
  • European Journal of Cancer Care
  • Evidence Based Nursing
  • Gastrointestinal Nursing
  • Health and Social Care in the Community
  • Implementation Science
  • International Emergency Nursing
  • International Journal of Nursing Practice
  • International Journal of Nursing Studies
  • International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications
  • 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
  • Journal of Advanced 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 Forensic Nursing
  • Journal of Health Organisation and Management
  • Journal of Healthcare Quality
  • Journal of Interprofessional Care
  • Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness
  • Journal of Nursing Management
  • Journal of Nursing Scholarship
  • Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing
  • Journal of Paramedic Medicine
  • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
  • Journal of Renal Care
  • Journal of Research in Nursing
  • Journal of Rural Health
  • Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing
  • Journal of Wound Care
  • Latin American Journal of Nursing (Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem)
  • Learning Disability Practice
  • Learning in Health and Social Care
  • Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice
  • Mental Health in Family Medicine
  • Mental Health Practice
  • Midwifery. An International Journal
  • Nurse Author & Editor
  • Nurse Education in Practice
  • Nurse Education Today
  • Nurse Prescribing
  • Nurse Researcher
  • Nursing and Residential Care
  • Nursing Ethics
  • Nursing Forum
  • Nursing in Critical Care
  • Nursing Inquiry
  • Nursing Management
  • Nursing Older People
  • Nursing Philosophy
  • Nursing Standard
  • Nursing for Women's Health
  • Paediatric Nursing
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
  • Practice Development in Health Care
  • Practice Nursing
  • Primary Health Care
  • Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing
  • Public Health Nursing
  • Quality in Ageing
  • Quality in Primary Care
  • Research in Nursing and Health 
  • Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
  • Social Theory and Health
  • Wiley-Blackwell 
  • Worldviews on Evidence Based Nursing

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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