AAPM&R's New Scientific
Journal
PM&R Journal Selected for MEDLINE Indexing
Your Academy is pleased to announce that the Academy’s
official scientific journal,
PM&R, has been
accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE. The decision was made after a review by the
Literature Selection Technical Review Committee of the
National Library of Medicine
(NLM) in mid-June. Inclusion in MEDLINE represents an endorsement of the
journal’s contributions to the medical literature thus far.
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What Indexing Means
To You
With
this selection, all articles published in PM&R since its
inception in January 2009 will be indexed, along with all future
articles. Therefore all authors who have contributed to the success of
the journal by having their content selected and published in the
journal will now be included in MEDLINE.
Don’t
miss the opportunity to be a part of the journal’s success. If you have
original research papers or other ideas for potential manuscripts for
the journal, your Academy encourages your submission of papers at
www.pmrjournal.org.
By contributing, you will help ensure PM&R’s position as a
premier journal in the field. In addition, your articles will be part of
a visible and widely used database, easily searchable through
Google as well as
PubMed
and other search engines. Having the contents of PM&R available
through MEDLINE assures authors that clinicians and researchers
worldwide will be able to find and cite their work.
PM&R is always interested in expanding its pool of dedicated peer
reviewers. Interested in volunteering for this exciting new journal?
Send an e-mail to
pmrjournal@aapmr.org. |
Less than a quarter of the titles reviewed by NLM are
selected for the MEDLINE database. Of the estimated 14,000 biomedical titles
currently published throughout the world, only about 5,300 journals are
currently indexed in MEDLINE. Only four issues of PM&R had been published at the
time the Academy submitted an application to NLM, making its positioning among
long-standing titles especially noteworthy.
How was PM&R evaluated?
PM&R emphasizes principles of injury, function, and
rehabilitation, and is designed to be relevant to practitioners and researchers
in a variety of medical and surgical specialties and rehabilitation disciplines.
Topics include acute and chronic musculoskeletal disorders and pain, neurologic
conditions involving the central and peripheral nervous systems, rehabilitation
of impairments associated with disabilities in adults and children, and
neurophysiology and electrodiagnosis.
Inclusion in MEDLINE is an acknowledgment that even in its
early growth and development, this journal meets the needs of clinicians,
researchers, academicians, administrators, and those in training. In addition,
indexing acknowledges that PM&R has met these specific criteria:
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Scope and coverage: PM&R is a core
biomedical subject and the journal makes a significant contribution to the
coverage of the specialty.
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Quality of content: PM&R journal
articles are original and important.
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Quality of editorial work: Journal contents are high quality, including
peer review, ethical guidelines, and so on.
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Production quality: The design, printing,
layout, and illustrations in PM&R are satisfactory.
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Types of content: The journal contains all of
the possible types of content, including reports of original research,
original clinical observations accompanied by analysis and discussion;
analysis of philosophical, ethical, or social aspects of the health
professions or biomedical sciences; critical reviews; statistical reviews;
descriptions of evaluation of methods or procedures; and case reports.
What is MEDLINE indexing?
MEDLINE is the principal online bibliographic citation
database of NLM. It is widely used internationally to provide access to the
world’s biomedical journal literature.
The NLM Literature Selection Technical Review Committee
meets three times each year and reviews 140 journals at each meeting. They
assess quality and make recommendations. To find a list of all MEDLINE journal
titles, visit
www.nlm.nih.gov/services/medline_titles.html.
Congratulations to the PM&R Editorial Board
AAPM&R would like to congratulate PM&R Editor-in-Chief
Stuart Weinstein, MD, and all PM&R editors and contributors on this great
success.
PM&R Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief: Stuart M. Weinstein MD
Senior Editors: Venu Akuthota, MD; David Chen, MD;
Michael Fredericson, MD; Jianan Li, MD; Heidi Prather, DO; M. Elizabeth Sandel,
MD; Gerold Stucki, MD, MS; Ross Zafonte, DO
CME Editor: Kathleen R. Bell, MD
Practice Management Feature Editor: Gregory
Worsowicz, MD, MBA
Ethical-Legal Feature Editor: Kristi L. Kirschner,
MD
Statistical Editor: Kristin Sainani, PhD
Managing Editor: Cathy Mendelsohn
Editorial Assistant: Nicole Egan
View the list of
associate editors on the PM&R journal site.
Learn
more about the journal online.
Learn how to
review a scientific manuscript for PM&R. Watch the presentation now.
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