Developing an evidence-based list of journals for nursing

Abstract

The Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section (NAHRS) of the Medical Library Association created the 2012 NAHRS Selected List of Nursing Journals to assist librarians with collection development and to provide nurses and librarians with data on nursing and interdisciplinary journals to assist their decisions about where to submit articles for publication. This list is a continuation and expansion of a list initially known as the Key Nursing Journals list. It compares database coverage and full-text options for each title and includes an analysis of the number of evidence-based, research, and continuing education articles.

Grey literature citations in top nursing journals: a bibliometric study

“…NAHRS mapped the nursing literature to identify core journals in 2006 and created a "Selected List of Nursing Journals" in 2012 [16]. Differing from Pelzer and Weise's approach to creating their own list of core veterinary journals, we used the 2012 updated evidence-based list of nursing and interdisciplinary journal titles as our selection bank because this list serves as a key tool for collection development and publication opportunities for librarians and nurses.…”

A comparative review of gerontological nursing citation data

“…This list was developed to assist nurses and librarians in evaluating nursing and interdisciplinary journal titles and to identify publishing opportunities for nursing authors. 41 Journals on the list must meet the following criteria: active status (currently published), peerreviewed, text in English or bilingual English, indexed in MEDLINE or EBSCOhost's Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL) database and, if interdisciplinary in nature, highly cited by many nursing authors. 42 Figure 3 shows the freely available 2016 NAHRS list as a spreadsheet.…”

Conforming collections: assessing medical and allied health collections using Doody’s Core Titles

“…Several previous studies have also developed core lists to aid in selection and collection assessment, such as a nursing journal core list to assist nurses and librarians in journal evaluation and authors in selection for journal publication, and a core and essential monograph list for veterinary medicine based on the number of occurrences of titles in citation data, reading lists, textbook and reserve book lists, and published bibliographies. Core lists and list-checking are relevant methods for collection selection and assessment among libraries and provide guidance in building and maintaining quality and responsive collections based on criteria recognized as authoritative and relevant by the academe, profession, or industry [ 7 – 8 ].…”