Marking the inclusion of the Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing in PubMed Central and strategies to be promoted to a top-tier journal in the nursing category
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: It is also an event worth celebrating because it is the second of more than 20 nursing journals in Korea to be included in PMC.The first journal was Child Health Nursing Research, which only publishes in English [2]. Language policy of the journalIn retrospect, I was invited as a speaker at the 15th Summer Seminar of the Korean Society of Women Health Nursing on May 27, 2010.I suggested changing the journal's language to English-only to add the journal to PMC.I made this suggestion because biomedical journals published in Korea began to be listed in PMC in 2008, and at the time, PMC only accepted English-language journals [1].Any journals indexed in PMC are also searchable from PubMed, the largest free literature database that provides English abstracts of life science journals.This is the shortest way for a local nursing journal to become an international journal.The frequency of citations by articles published in other journals increases dramatically after being indexed in PMC, by two to 10 times [3].Furthermore, inclusion in PMC leads to more frequent submissions from international researchers.However, this suggestion was not attempted because of the difficulty of recruiting English manuscripts.Most society members who wrote manuscripts in English submitted them to international journals.Therefore, English-only journal was not feasible for the Society.However, PMC changed its language policy in 2019, and it now accepts non-MEDLINE, non-English journals.PMC began to review these journals if their primary content was largely in English.Although the exact amount required for "largely in English" is not fixed, more than half of the journal content would be a reasonable target.
Author: Sun Huh
Institution: Hallym University
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $600
OpenAlex ID: W4298145378