NURS738: Research Methods I: Evaluating Journal Quality

This toolkit provides a list of questions to consider when evaluating journals.

Check out this short article by Leslie Nicoll. She provides her impressions of the Think. Check. Submit. website and discusses the importance of "journal due diligence" when selecting a journal.

Recommendations from the International Academy of Nursing Editors for evaluating journal web sites.

"The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) are scholarly organizations that have seen an increase in the number, and broad range in the quality, of membership applications. Our organizations have collaborated in an effort to identify principles of transparency and best practice for scholarly publications and to clarify that these principles form part of the criteria on which membership applications will be evaluated."