Need help with finding a journal to publish psych case report

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[Doc Samson]

What is convergence disorder?

 

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[atsai3]

BUMP anyone? We really need some help!

First of all, chill out. You waited two and a half hours before bumping your own thread. Be patient.

Second, the way you wrote your initial post ("we just want a publication") makes me think that your case report is of low novelty and low quality. If that is the case, then my recommendation is to not publish your case report. The psychiatric literature is flooded with low quality journals and low quality research. We don't need more low quality research. Researchers who can only put out low quality research should just fall on the knife and stop confusing non-researchers with low quality research.

However, if my assumption is wrong and you actually have an interesting contribution for the literature, then please provide us with more details. You did not provide enough information in your post for anyone to be able to give you a proper recommendation for a good journal to target. I understand that it's about conversion disorder. What about? A unique application of a new psychopharmacologic agent? A unique presentation in the inpatient C-L setting? etc etc.

-AT.

 

[OldPsychDoc]

Maybe the Conversion Disorder presented as a Convergence Disorder...

 

[whopper]

Current Psychiatry regularly publishes case reports.

 

[Dreaming big]

Current Psychiatry regularly publishes case reports.

Thanks - will check it out!

 

[Dreaming big]

First of all, chill out. You waited two and a half hours before bumping your own thread. Be patient.

Second, the way you wrote your initial post ("we just want a publication") makes me think that your case report is of low novelty and low quality. If that is the case, then my recommendation is to not publish your case report. The psychiatric literature is flooded with low quality journals and low quality research. We don't need more low quality research. Researchers who can only put out low quality research should just fall on the knife and stop confusing non-researchers with low quality research.

However, if my assumption is wrong and you actually have an interesting contribution for the literature, then please provide us with more details. You did not provide enough information in your post for anyone to be able to give you a proper recommendation for a good journal to target. I understand that it's about conversion disorder. What about? A unique application of a new psychopharmacologic agent? A unique presentation in the inpatient C-L setting? etc etc.

-AT.

Hey,

The reasons for the need for a quick (we just want a publication) is a few reasons.
I would really appreciate the names of any journal which it would be easy to publish into at a fast rate. I would be willing to show you the research after it has been submitted, if it would satisfy you that it is not low quality research.

THANKS!

 

[loveoforganic]

Any journal publishing "fast and easy" is not going to be reputable at all as what takes time is review and revisions of articles to insure their quality before dissemination. If you have a very high quality article and are looking to be published quickly, you could look for a journal with a very tight interest that fits your article, as they likely wouldn't have a giant line of papers to review along with yours.

 

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Any journal publishing "fast and easy" is not going to be reputable at all as what takes time is review and revisions of articles to insure their quality before dissemination. If you have a very high quality article and are looking to be published quickly, you could look for a journal with a very tight interest that fits your article, as they likely wouldn't have a giant line of papers to review along with yours.

By fast, I mean around 3-6 months rather than a year or so.

 

[atsai3]

By fast, I mean around 3-6 months rather than a year or so.

Any of the journals that come to mind aren't necessarily the kinds of places I would go to for a quick hit.

In my experience, Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology has turnaround times matching what you are looking for (e.g., the case reports I have published there have taken 146, 103, and 135 days from submission to acceptance), but it doesn't sound like your case report would be appropriate for a psychopharmacology journal. You could always try a general interest psychiatry journal (eg., American Journal of Psychiatry). In terms of specialty journals, Transcultural Psychiatry might be more appropriate, but it doesn't publish case reports. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry does publish clinical case studies, but they are not known for having a fast turnaround time. General Hospital Psychiatry might be interested if there is an interesting C-L angle. BMJ also has a new journal, BMJ Case Reports.

As an aside, unless your research mentor really has no body of preliminary studies to describe in his grant proposal, I don't think that a case report will really make any difference in terms of increasing the probability that the grant is funded.

-AT.

 

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Any of the journals that come to mind aren't necessarily the kinds of places I would go to for a quick hit.


As an aside, unless your research mentor really has no body of preliminary studies to describe in his grant proposal, I don't think that a case report will really make any difference in terms of increasing the probability that the grant is funded.

-AT.

Thank you for the list of journals; just as a last question, do any others comes to mind? Of those which you had listed, which would be the easiest to get accepted into - i.e, where do we stand the highest chance of acceptance. We would rather not apply to a journal and be rejected (using up precious time) so we would rather target more likely journals

About the grant proposal, I really have no control over that. He has published a few times on this topic in the last 3 years, plus has been a co-author in 2 studies. However, thats his problem and not mine (I wouldn't mind being grant funded though).


I really really really appreciate all the help your giving me

 

[atsai3]

Thank you for the list of journals; just as a last question, do any others comes to mind? Of those which you had listed, which would be the easiest to get accepted into - i.e, where do we stand the highest chance of acceptance. We would rather not apply to a journal and be rejected (using up precious time) so we would rather target more likely journals

About the grant proposal, I really have no control over that. He has published a few times on this topic in the last 3 years, plus has been a co-author in 2 studies. However, thats his problem and not mine (I wouldn't mind being grant funded though).


I really really really appreciate all the help your giving me

Hard to say.

If you just want a quick hit, you might also consider: Journal of Medical Case Reports, or Case Reports in Medicine.

-AT.

 

[Dreaming big]

Hard to say.

If you just want a quick hit, you might also consider: Journal of Medical Case Reports, or Case Reports in Medicine.

-AT.

Hey, I just looked up journal of medical case reports; you need to pay to be published in there. Are there any 'quick hits' without needing to pay close to $500-1000?

The others are up to $200, which is doable.

How is BMJ case reports viewed as (I search its IF is around 12?)? Also, have you had any experience in publishing there? Is it hard to be published?

Really appreciate the help

 

[atsai3]

Hey, I just looked up journal of medical case reports; you need to pay to be published in there. Are there any 'quick hits' without needing to pay close to $500-1000?

The others are up to $200, which is doable.

How is BMJ case reports viewed as (I search its IF is around 12?)? Also, have you had any experience in publishing there? Is it hard to be published?

Really appreciate the help

I believe you and I are not on the same page. It sounds like you are looking for a journal that has a high impact factor, low threshold for acceptance, no publishing fee, and quick turnaround. I am open to correction by anyone else on SDN who is still reading this thread, but I don't think any such journal exists.

As for references to the prestige of an impact factor of 12, see here: http://tinyurl.com/kkozyk.

-AT.

 

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I believe you and I are not on the same page. It sounds like you are looking for a journal that has a high impact factor, low threshold for acceptance, no publishing fee, and quick turnaround. I am open to correction by anyone else on SDN who is still reading this thread, but I don't think any such journal exists.

As for references to the prestige of an impact factor of 12, see here: http://tinyurl.com/kkozyk.

-AT.

No no, low impact factor is fine, its just the threshold for acceptance and publishing fee. which gives us the best chance?

 

[atsai3]

No no, low impact factor is fine, its just the threshold for acceptance and publishing fee. which gives us the best chance?

I don't have personal experience with publishing case reports at any of the journals I listed except for JCP.

What I would recommend at this point, then, is looking up all the journals that I described in this thread, and picking the journal with the lowest impact factor that does not have a fee. Although impact factor does not perfectly correlate with acceptance rates, I suspect that there is at least a nonzero correlation (i.e., a journal with a low impact factor is likely to have a lower threshold for acceptance than a journal with a high impact factor).

Hope this helps.

-AT.

 

[OldPsychDoc]

No no, low impact factor is fine, its just the threshold for acceptance and publishing fee. which gives us the best chance?

Honestly, this is really the MENTOR's job to find appropriate venues for publishing--unless he's intentionally having you do this as part of your training. If he's a grant-worthy researcher, he should be on top of this himself instead of sending you on a wild goose chase like this. Admittedly some of us here have published in the past, but no one here that I am aware of is a funded PI.

 

[Dreaming big]

Honestly, this is really the MENTOR's job to find appropriate venues for publishing--unless he's intentionally having you do this as part of your training. If he's a grant-worthy researcher, he should be on top of this himself instead of sending you on a wild goose chase like this. Admittedly some of us here have published in the past, but no one here that I am aware of is a funded PI.

He wants me to go this on my own and learn what I can

 

[Doc Samson]

IF your article is worth publishing (and for that it'd need to add something to the existing body of knowledge), then it seems like Psychosomatics would be a reasonable destination given the subject matter. The editorial staff requires reviewers to have a <2 week turnaround, so you can find out whether your article is accepted/rejected/returned for revision within a month or so. Even if your article is publishable, it will likely require at least one (if not several) rounds of review/revision before it is actually accepted. I've only ever had one article accepted right off the bat.

 

[Piaget]

Try psychiatry 2010

 

[Dreaming big]

Just got it accepted to a journal for publication - =)

 

[atsai3]

Just got it accepted to a journal for publication - =)

That was quick. Since so many people on SDN chimed in with suggestions, do you mind sharing with SDN the name of the journal so that others can also learn from your experience?

-AT.

 

[Dreaming big]

That was quick. Since so many people on SDN chimed in with suggestions, do you mind sharing with SDN the name of the journal so that others can also learn from your experience?

-AT.

I will write the name of the journal - but since my topic is posted, my identity would be posted - i will post it in 3 months.

The journal selected my paper as a CME paper, can I include that in my resume?

 

[Doc Samson]

I will write the name of the journal - but since my topic is posted, my identity would be posted - i will post it in 3 months.

The journal selected my paper as a CME paper, can I include that in my resume?

I'm confused - what will have changed in 3 months other than you paper might already be available and folks reading the thread that you revive from the dead will have the chance to immediately look it up and ID you? Posting the journal now is a far safer bet in terms of maintaining anonymity since we're not going to keep checking the table of contents to see if a certain article pops up.

 

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I'm confused - what will have changed in 3 months other than you paper might already be available and folks reading the thread that you revive from the dead will have the chance to immediately look it up and ID you? Posting the journal now is a far safer bet in terms of maintaining anonymity since we're not going to keep checking the table of contents to see if a certain article pops up.

Solid point, I didn't think of htat.

Psychiatry 2010

 

[loveoforganic]

Congrats 🙂