In support of faculty pursuing scholarly publishing, the Busse Library staff has assembled these resources for consultation and general information. Field-specific pages include a roster of top journals associated with the discipline, professional associations, applicable citation index details, and articles on how to publish in that arena.
For finance scholars, the following categories of information are offered:
Top 10-20 Journals, Based on Recent ISI Impact Factors -- Previous ISI Rankings for Top Journals in Nursing (SSCI) -- Alternative Citation Impact Systems: Nursing Rankings -- Professional Associations: Nursing -- Open Access Journals and Open Access Collections: Nursing
Top Ten Journals, Based on Recent ISI Impact Factors
- Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care: Wiley-Blackwell -- (Rank #1, 2008 ISI)
- International Journal of Nursing Studies: Elsevier -- (Rank #2, 2008 ISI)
- Oncology Nursing Forum: Oncology Nursing Society -- (Rank #3, 2008 ISI)
- Cancer Nursing: Lippincott Williams -- (Rank #4, 2008 ISI)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing (JAN): Wiley-Blackwell -- (Rank #5, 2008 ISI)
- Nursing Research: Lippincott Williams -- (Rank #6, 2008 ISI)
- Pain Management Nursing: Elsevier -- (Rank #7, 2008 ISI)
- Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing (JCN): Lippincott Williams -- (Rank #8, ISI)
- Research in Nursing & Health: Wiley-Blackwell -- (Rank #9, 2008 ISI)
- Journal of Clinical Nursing (JCN): Wiley-Blackwell -- (Rank #10, 2008 ISI)
Previous ISI Rankings for Top Journals in Nursing (SSCI)
Previous ISI Rankings: General Guides
- Journals Ranked by Impact: From ISI's SCI-BYTES: What's New in Research -- directory to master and subject lists compiled by the University of Delaware Library
Previous ISI Rankings: Nursing Journals
- Journals Ranked by Impact: Nursing, 2008 Impact Factors: Sci-Bytes
- 1999 Nursing Journals and Impact Factors: Harvey Cushing/John Jay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University
Alternative Citation Impact Systems: Nursing Rankings
- "Comparing the Google Scholar h-index with the ISI Journal Impact Factor." By Anne-Wil Harzing and Ron van der Wal. c2007.
- Eigenfactor.org: Medicine, 2008 Rankings. Select year (from main search page) to view additional rankings.
- JournalRanking.com: Nursing -- powered by RedJasper software as only interactive, online journal ranking system in world
- Journal Rankings: Nursing: SCImago Journal & Country Rank -- view SJR data (SCOPUS) for various years
- View SNIP and SJR Values: SCOPUS -- download entire database (Sept. 2010) as spreadsheet or conduct a search for title or subject of interest
Professional Associations: Nursing
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)
- American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA)
- American Nurses Association (ANA)
- AORN: Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
- Emergency Nurses Association (ENA)
- Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA)
- Iowa Nurses Association (INA)
- National Black Nurses Association (NBNA)
- National Gerontological Nursing Association (NGNA)
- National Student Nurses Association (NSNA)
Open Access Journals and Open Access Collections: Nursing
- BMC Nursing: BioMed Central -- journal offering peer-reviewed research in all areas of nursing
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Health Sciences -- view all categories
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Nursing
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Public Health
- Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice; Internet Scientific Publications
- Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI)
- The Open Nursing Journal: Bentham Open -- view current and past issues