Nursing

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Journal Tips:

• For electronic/online journals: Remember to check the year/issue coverage for the eJournal! (The library may have the journal electronically, but not in the year you need.)
• Don't be surprised if the same journal is found in more than one database. But again: check the year/issue coverage dates as different databases may subscribe to different years of the journal.
• If the journal is not available online, you can search the FGCU Library Catalog to see if we have a print copy on the shelf.  (Yes, journals still exist in print...)
• If the journal is not available electronically or in print, you can request specific articles within a journal via InterLibrary Loan (aka Illiad.)

There are 118 core journals for the field of nursing according to the most recent research survey, a 2006 JMLA article (Journal of the Medical Library Association), entitled: "Mapping the General Literature of American Nursing" by authors Margaret Allen, MLS, AHIP, and June R. Levy, MLS. The authors define general to describe "the popular clinically orientated journals marketed to practicing nurses" in the U.S.

Of the 118 core journals, the following 27 journals constitute the most productive, frequently cited nursing journals. (For a complete list of all 118 journals, click on the above link to the JMLA article.)

(Journals are listed alphabetically. Any information in quotation marks is direct from the journal's official website.)

1. AACN Advanced Critical Care (an official publication of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses)
2. American Journal of Nursing (official journal of the American Nurses' Association)
3. BMJ Evidence-based Medicine
4. Critical Care Nurse (an official publication of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses)
5. Evidence-based Child Health: A Cochrane Review Journal
6. Evidence-based Communication Assessment and Intervention
7. Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
8. Evidence-based Healthcare
9. Evidence-based Mental Health
10. Evidence-based Nursing
11. Evidence-based Practice
12. Evidence-based Social Work
13. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
14. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
15. Journal of Evidence-based Integrative Medicine
16. Journal of Evidence-based Practices for Schools
17. Journal of Nursing Administration
18. Journal of Nursing Scholarship (an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Sigma Theta Tau)
19. Lancet
20. Medical Malpractice Verdicts, Settlements & Experts (reporting medical negligence cases from across the United States since 1985)
21. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (weekly epidemiological digest for America published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
22. New England Journal of Medicine (published by the Massachusetts Medical Society)
23. Nursing
24. Nursing Clinics of North America
25. Nursing Management
26. Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing
27. Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing