When you are considering where to publish your article, you want to make sure that other people will see it. Databases such as PubMed and Embase are the most important sources of scholarly health science literature. In most cases, the search results in these databases are from journals that have met certain quality and technical criteria. Databases include different journals in their coverage lists.
Will the article you are submitting appear in the top health science databases? This page will teach you how to find out.
If you want your research to be discoverable in PubMed, try to publish in a journal that is indexed for MEDLINE. PubMed is a free bibliographic database that is widely used by biomedical researchers. Articles that are published in MEDLINE journals get medical subject headings (MeSH) applied to each article, making them more apt to be found in PubMed searches.
Journals that are selected for MEDLINE undergo a vetting process that decides whether the scientific and editorial character and quality of a journal merits its inclusion in MEDLINE. There are almost 5,300 titles that are currently indexed for MEDLINE.
Find out if a journal in indexed for MEDLINE.
Search the journal title in the NLM Catalog. In the results list, look to see if the journal is "currently indexed for MEDLINE." Click the journal title to view more information such as coverage in MEDLINE and the MeSH terms that are applied to the journal.
A) Use the "Currently Indexed for MEDLINE filter on the left side of the page to limit the results list. B) ARP Rheumatology is currently indexed for MEDLINE. C) Rheumatology & Autoimmunity is not currently indexed for MEDLINE, but may appear in PubMed Central. Click on journal title for more information.
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