Advice on journal to submit to

[NTheo91]

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Hello everyone. I'm looking for advice on where I could submit this research project I did during medical school.

Basically it's a broad historical overview of the history of cancer immunotherapy, from 1880's to modern day with some analysis and projections into the future. I have submitted it to 3 journals so far which all said something along the lines of "this is good and interesting to read, but is not within the scope of our journal. We only accept journals answering a specific question with primary research blah blah blah". I'm really having a hard time finding such a journal, especially since the 'scope' of each journal is a very vague 3 sentences on their website. I don't really have any research experience so I feel like I'm kind of figuring this out on my own at this point. Any advice?

I start residency in 2 weeks so I'm trying to finally put this behind me.

Thanks in advance!

 

[wanderingorion]

I can't help, but I'd love to read it when it comes out!

 

[mistafab]

I would talk to a hem/onc doc and ask them this question. They’d probably be able to direct you to something in this wheelhouse.

 

[Goro]

Hello everyone. I'm looking for advice on where I could submit this research project I did during medical school.

Basically it's a broad historical overview of the history of cancer immunotherapy, from 1880's to modern day with some analysis and projections into the future. I have submitted it to 3 journals so far which all said something along the lines of "this is good and interesting to read, but is not within the scope of our journal. We only accept journals answering a specific question with primary research blah blah blah". I'm really having a hard time finding such a journal, especially since the 'scope' of each journal is a very vague 3 sentences on their website. I don't really have any research experience so I feel like I'm kind of figuring this out on my own at this point. Any advice?

I start residency in 2 weeks so I'm trying to finally put this behind me.

Thanks in advance!

Do Pubmed search on "cancer immunotherapy" AND " review."

See what journals pop up. Target them. Then write to the editors and ask if this is of interest to them.

Suggest targeting low impact journals (<2.0 IP).

 

[wiseOldPT]

Enter in abstract or title or keywords and this tool will generate a list of journals:

Journal / Author Name Estimator

 

[sargon2123]

Tbh this topic is too broad. In my opinion, something this broad would need to have either a first author faculty member or multiple faculty as later authors, as well as be in a high impact journal. That’s probably why you’re getting no’s. The reviews you see in a lot of these heme journals are a lot more specific ("emerging trends in the use of MAPK inhibitors to treat suchandsuch lymphoma). If you’re that interested in putting this to use, go back and consult a past mentor maybe, but my gut tells me this will be hard because it’s quite broad.

I take it you’re about to start IM residency? Why are you concerned with research products now, out of curiosity?

edit: if the journal is saying they only take primary research, then they’ll probably not care for reviews (which is what your thing is)

 

[7331poas]

Do you have other authors on this article?

 

[GoSpursGo]

Review papers in good journals are often written on an invitation basis--ie, the journal reaches out to someone well-known in the field and says, "we'd love if you could write a review on X with a focus on Y and Z." The faculty member then either collaborates with some other colleagues or farms it out to an eager resident or fellow, and that's that. Take a look at review articles that are published in the journals you targeted, and look up the last author and I suspect you'll see that they're all senior, tenured faculty members.

What exactly is this--was this an idea that was pitched to you by a faculty mentor to write a review article and they just keep picking journals that are out of the scope of the paper? Or was this some assignment you had to do in med school, and you hoped that you could parlay it on your own into a publication? If it's the latter and you're the sole author, then frankly nobody is going to care to read a review article from a random intern, no matter how rigorously you reviewed the literature. It stings to hear this after you've put in a lot of effort already, but this isn't the right stage of your career to be writing review articles on your own. Either send it to a very low-impact factor journal and hope they print it, find a faculty mentor who might be able to point you in the right direction, or give up.

 

[SurfingDoctor]

As someone said before, do you have co-authors? Is there a senior author who is known within in the field?

A) If no, then stop.

B) If yes, then ask them.

C) If they don't know, they aren't senior enough. See A.

 

[VincentAdultman]

Review papers in good journals are often written on an invitation basis--ie, the journal reaches out to someone well-known in the field and says, "we'd love if you could write a review on X with a focus on Y and Z." The faculty member then either collaborates with some other colleagues or farms it out to an eager resident or fellow, and that's that. Take a look at review articles that are published in the journals you targeted, and look up the last author and I suspect you'll see that they're all senior, tenured faculty members.

What exactly is this--was this an idea that was pitched to you by a faculty mentor to write a review article and they just keep picking journals that are out of the scope of the paper? Or was this some assignment you had to do in med school, and you hoped that you could parlay it on your own into a publication? If it's the latter and you're the sole author, then frankly nobody is going to care to read a review article from a random intern, no matter how rigorously you reviewed the literature. It stings to hear this after you've put in a lot of effort already, but this isn't the right stage of your career to be writing review articles on your own. Either send it to a very low-impact factor journal and hope they print it, find a faculty mentor who might be able to point you in the right direction, or give up.

Not even an intern. A review article written by a medical student. No ones looking to publish that.

Which sucks, cause it actually sounds kind of cool.

 

[sargon2123]

Not even an intern. A review article written by a medical student. No ones looking to publish that.

Which sucks, cause it actually sounds kind of cool.

It could work if OP had prestigious faculty members willing to be co-authors