PubMed is a free platform aiding the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences data with the sole aim of improving health, both globally and personally.
The PubMed database contains more than 30 million excerpts and introductions of biomedical data. It does not have complete text journal reports; however, links to the full article are often present in it when retrieved from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).
Commendations in PubMed primarily originates from biomedicine and other health disciplines, and related fields such as life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering, etc. PubMed facilitates searching across several NLM literature resources, namely MEDLINE, PMC, Bookshelf.
https://www.literaturepublishers.org/event/Pubmed-Indexed-Journal.html
For Clinical Images and Case Reports Journal, in the medical and life sciences space, getting indexed in PubMed is a high priority goal. However, no clear resource exists that gives a step by step run-through of the process that will get your articles indexed in PubMed. We intend to remedy that with this blog post. A complete link of resources for further reference is appended at the end of this post.
PubMed, developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is a free resource that provides public access to:
Citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, veterinary medicine, nursing, dentistry, preclinical sciences and healthcare systems from MEDLINE (more about MEDLINE later). Also available are citations for most books on the NCBI bookshelf. Links to full-text articles from PubMed Central (PMC), other publisher websites and related resources.
The two-pointers above are heavily summarized and the actual scope of PubMed is more detailed. While it is largely a database of content in the medical and biological sciences, it does include citations and links to some out-of-scope journals — primarily general chemistry and general science journals.
Benefits of Getting Indexed in PubMed
A lot of people talk about getting indexed in PubMed, however, you don’t really apply to ‘get indexed in PubMed’ (we’ll see why in the next section that differentiates PubMed, and PMC). However, if links to your articles or citations and abstracts from your journals become searchable in PubMed’s database, the benefits are primarily twofold:
It increases trust in your journal’s processes and commitment to science. This makes it easier to attract quality submissions. Of course, PubMed has been in the news several times for including links to predatory journals and dubious content, but on the whole, showing up on PubMed is considered a certification of quality.
Increases exposure, As with most good indices, getting indexed in PubMed leads to an increase in the reach and exposure of your journal. This not only increases the traffic to your journal’s website and articles, but is also a precipitating factor for an eventual increase in citations and impact factors.
Difference between PubMed and PMC
PubMed is a searchable database of citations and abstracts. To show up in search results on PubMed your journal needs to be submitted to either MEDLINE or PMC or both. There is no application for PubMed — citations, abstracts, and links to full-text articles are pulled from MEDLINE, PMC, and the NCBI Bookshelf.
PMC was launched in 2000 and is a free archive for full-text articles in the biomedical and life sciences space. It serves as a repository for journal content deposited by participating publishers. PubMed recommends all journals to submit full-text articles to PMC and the application guidelines are less strict than for MEDLINE. Of course, journals can apply for both PMC and MEDLINE — but rejection from one may affect your application’s acceptance for the other as well.
Manuscript Submission
Authors are requested to submit their manuscript by using Online Manuscript Submission Portal:
https://www.literaturepublishers.org/submit.html
(or) also invited to submit through the Journal E-mail Id: editor.cicrj@literaturepublishers.org
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