Research: publishing quandry

[pandoraone]

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I am working on a project with my P.I in which we had a very small N (29). It was clinical research, a retrospective chart review on something that is very interesting in our opinion. My mentor wants to publish it but there aren't many journals that would consider something with such a small sample size.

One option we found is the Mayo Clinic Proceedings under the heading of brief reports. This is what they say about it:


Brief Report. A Brief Report will typically address an early report or observation of relevance to clinical medicine or medical science. This category is not intended to present preliminary data on structured, ongoing research but instead is intended to present unanticipated or extremely novel observations that may encourage others to perform related research or reassess their clinical practice.

The research we did is psych research. Do you guys know of any other journal that would publish something like this?

Thanks!

 

[dl2dp2]

I am working on a project with my P.I in which we had a very small N (29). It was clinical research, a retrospective chart review on something that is very interesting in our opinion. My mentor wants to publish it but there aren't many journals that would consider something with such a small sample size.

One option we found is the Mayo Clinic Proceedings under the heading of brief reports. This is what they say about it:


Brief Report. A Brief Report will typically address an early report or observation of relevance to clinical medicine or medical science. This category is not intended to present preliminary data on structured, ongoing research but instead is intended to present unanticipated or extremely novel observations that may encourage others to perform related research or reassess their clinical practice.

The research we did is psych research. Do you guys know of any other journal that would publish something like this?

Thanks!

Depending on the topic, you need to go into subspecialty journals in psychiatry. 29 patients as a case series isn't necessarily small. Does your PI know what he's doing? If not, I suggest that you ask around and have him talk to people (i.e. department chair) who have more experience. Getting a paper into a random journal won't do much for his career.

 

[pandoraone]

Depending on the topic, you need to go into subspecialty journals in psychiatry. 29 patients as a case series isn't necessarily small. Does your PI know what he's doing? If not, I suggest that you ask around and have him talk to people (i.e. department chair) who have more experience. Getting a paper into a random journal won't do much for his career.

Thanks for the response. TBH, the P.I isn't very motivated at getting this published - if I want it, it is on me. It is research is psychiatry on something that is novel - that is why I am looking for something like the Mayo Clinic Proceedings Brief Report section in a different journal so it can be published.

I'm not looking for a high impact factor journal, just something that would take this paper.

 

[Neuronix]

This is something only your advisor or other related faculty would be able to answer. You need someone who knows the work you are doing and knows the field well to tell you if it is publishable and where.