Which journals to aim for to publish case reports?
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High impact journals don’t publish case reports in 2019.
Similar to the fact that previous generations could buy a home for a reasonable cost, make a killing in medicine, not have to deal with clipboard nurses, get 6% on savings/bonds, pay for med school with a summer job, get a pension, get social security, etc. - older generations could get R-level grants without a PhD and publish much more easily.
Sorry for the rant, back to your question. Very few places do case reports, many of them are somewhat predatory.
Yeah getting case reports published is more and more difficult. In the end, you almost always have to pay to publish, and even then its sometimes hard to get accepted. WestJEMs case report journal is probably the cheapest, and you only pay if they accept it, its free to submit.
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EM Resident from EMRA publishes select medical student case reports. They do not charge any submission or publication fee. It is a peer-reviewed, non-pubmed indexed journal.
Cureus is pubmed indexed and free open access to view and publish, though its hardly prestigious.
Yeah it's crazy, nobody publishes case reports anymore. And the predatory journals? Good grief they do not stop hounding you for papers. I get, without exaggeration, 10 emails a week from these guys.
lucid_interval: unless you have a patient with front butt à la scrubs, you're probably out of luck unless your hospital publishes an in house case report (which often academic centers will do).
Is cureus looked down by academic physicians? Wanted to try and get published before match season
10 a week? It feels like 10 a day sometimes! Of course it’s always in the middle of the night. No matter how many times I unsubscribe or block them, more seem to pop up. It’s like cutting the head off a hydra!
Is EM Resident really peer reviewed? I published an article there once but don't recall getting any reviewer comments on it. Has this changed recently?
As others have said, publication of case reports in reputable journals is almost not a thing any more. However, your chances may be better if one of the following applies:
1) It's an extremely rare pathology. My sense is that for EM this means either a very unusual cause for a common problem or a common illness causing something very unusual.
2) There's a really good teaching point. Something that is broadly applicable or a good demonstration of physiology.
3) There's a good image. XR, CT, ECG, skin finding, etc. Then it can be submitted to an images in medicine section.
Also, as with most things EM, if you can work ultrasound and ketamine into this somehow, your chances at publication increase dramatically*.
*just kidding, don't do this.
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And really, if you're thinking of publishing a case report, you need to have some sort of faculty advisor. They would know what journals to submit to. This isn't something you're just going to wing. There's just not that much new under the sun anymore.
I published a case report there a few months ago and the editor who was assigned to it had reached out to me with corrections and clarifications.
