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Journal Abbreviations /
Instructions to Authors
Biological Journal Abbreviations - Abbreviations, full titles, and links to Web pages for a variety of biological and medical journals, maintained and edited by Geoffrey Patton, PhD.
CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool - A free online resource intended for researchers to quickly identify or confirm journal titles and abbreviations for publications indexed by CAS since 1907, including serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications.
Instructions to Authors - From the Mulford Health Science Library, University of Toledo, this site offers links to instructions to authors for over 6,000 titles in the health and life sciences. All links are to "primary sources" - that is, to publishers and organizations with editorial responsibilities for the titles.
NCBI Journals Database - Available from the PubMed interface, enter the full or partial journal name in the search box. Click the journal title to display additional information about the journal.
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals - International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Resources for Authors including general guidelines on the format of manuscripts submitted to medical journals. (ICMJE revision April 2010)
Author Evaluation, Impact Factors, & Publishing Tools
American Chemical Society "Publish Your Research" Video Series - Features interviews with prominent authors and Editors of ACS journals about all aspects of the publication process. They provide their unique points of view from their own experiences with ACS journals and offer practical advice for publishing peer-reviewed research intended for interdisciplinary scientific audiences, such as chemistry, biology, medicine, physics, and engineering. .
h-index - Proposed by Jorge Hirsch in 2005 as an alternative to the impact factor, the h-index attempts to measure both the scientific productivity and the apparent scientific impact of a scientist based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other people's publications. For example, an author with an h-index of 20 has published 20 papers each of which has been cited by others at least 20 times. A higher h-index reflects a higher number of publications that have been cited more often. The index is designed to improve upon simpler measures such as the total number of citations or publications. The index is thought to work properly only for comparing scientists working in the same field; citation conventions differ widely among different fields. Read more about the h-index - Hirsch, J. E. 2005. An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102 (46):16569-16572. http://www.pnas.org/content/102/46/16569.abstract.
Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE) - A free resource tool for finding the perfect journal in which to publish your research, from The Biosemantics Group. Copy and paste your manuscript's abstract or type in the key concepts of your paper. You will get a list of journals, sorted by confidence score, once you click the Find Journals button. Learn more about JANE.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) - via ISI's Web of Knowledge interface provides "Impact Factors" & "Journal Rankings," to help evaluate scholarly journals, using citation data from over 8,400 journals. A higher impact factor generally indicates that this journal's articles have been cited more. (NIH/FNLCR)
Frederick-National-Lab-in-Print - The Frederick-National-Lab-in-Print database is a collection of citations for journal articles authored by employees and contractors of the National Cancer Institute at Frederick from 1997 through the present. (currently FNLCR onsite only)