This document provides an overview of the publishing process for the Journal of Advanced Nursing (JAN). It discusses the peer review process, submission requirements, reasons for rejection, revisions, and production. Metrics on submissions and acceptances are presented. Guidelines that JAN adheres to are outlined, including those around authorship, plagiarism detection, and retractions. What authors can expect during submission and post-acceptance is also reviewed.

1. Journal of Advanced Nursing
&
The road to publication
Roger Watson PhD FRCN FAAN
Editor-in-Chief, JAN
@jadvnursing

3. Understand the publishing
process

5. Quality assurance in the publication process:
authors, editors, reviewers, publishers
Submission
Peer review
Editorial decision and input
Revision
Production
Publication
• submission requirements
based on international
standards (e.g. ICMJE) re
content, ethics, authorship etc
• peer review (blind or open)
• reasons for rejection include
plagiarism, redundancy, sub-
standard research, faulty or
incomplete analysis, poor or
incomplete reporting
• revision (minor or major) aims
to improve quality
• further checks at production
• post-publication scrutiny
(internal and external)

6. Understand the publishing
process
Write first for:
•Editors
•Reviewers
•Your audience

7. Editorial team
•Editor-in-Chief:
Roger Watson
•Editors:
Mark Hayter, University of Hull, UK
Jane Noyes, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
Rita Pickler, Cincinatti Children’s, USA
Brenda Roe, Edge Hill University, Liverpool, UK
Robyn Gallagher, University of Sydney, Australia

8. International editorial board
12 issues per year
Impact factor: 1.741 (10/110)
12024 cites (2014)

9. 2010:
50 countries
924 submissions

10. 2011:
63 countries
1112 submissions

11. 2012:
50 countries
1145 submissions

12. 2013:
57 countries
1237 submissions

13. 2014:
55 countries
1110 submissions

15. Papers
published
2013

16. 2014
Month Accept Reject
Immediate
Reject
Total Final
Decisions
Accept %
January 10 27 72 109 9.2
February 26 14 71 111 23.4
March 12 9 90 111 10.8
April 15 10 53 78 19.2
May 13 14 36 63 20.6
June 16 8 61 85 18.8
July 21 19 53 93 22.6
August 10 18 49 77 13.0
September 17 18 53 88 19.3
October 19 16 36 71 26.8
November 16 14 31 61 26.2
December 20 10 25 55 36.4
Total 195 177 630 1002 19.5
Monthly Avg. 16 15 53 84 17

17. Journal guidelines

18. Impact factor
In a given year, the impact factor of a journal is the average number of
citations to those papers that were published during the two preceding
years.
For example, the 2008 impact factor of a journal would be calculated as
follows:
A = the number of times articles published in 2006 and 2007 were cited
by indexed journals during 2008
B = the total number of "citable items" published in 2006 and 2007.
("Citable items" are usually articles, reviews, proceedings, or notes;
not editorials or Letters-to-the-Editor.)
2008 impact factor = A/B

19. Which papers get cited most
(long term)?
•Methodological papers
•Discussion papers (including concept
analysis)
•Review papers
•Original research

20. Which papers get cited most
(short term)?
•Review papers
•Methodological papers
•Discussion papers (including concept
analysis)
•Original research

21. What we publish in JAN
•Editorials
•Review papers
•Research papers
• Original papers
• Research Methodology
• Instrument Development
• Research protocols
•Discussion papers
•Concept analysis
•Consensus guidelines
•JAN interactive

22. Aims and scope of JAN
The Journal of Advanced Nursing
(JAN) contributes to the advancement
of evidence-based nursing, midwifery
and healthcare by disseminating high
quality research and scholarship of
contemporary relevance and with
potential to advance knowledge for
practice, education, management or
policy.

23. Peer review
… is a means of sieving out evident error, currently
unacceptable practices, repetition of previously
published work without acknowledgement, and trivial
contributions that add little to knowledge.
Russell report on ‘Climategate’

25. JAN adheres to international guidelines
CONSORT http://www.consort-statement.org/

28. JAN adheres to international guidelines
CONSORT http://www.consort-statement.org/
PRISMA http://www.prisma-statement.org/

31. JAN adheres to international guidelines
CONSORT http://www.consort-statement.org/
PRISMA http://www.prisma-statement.org/
COPE http://publicationethics.org/

33. JAN adheres to international guidelines
CONSORT http://www.consort-statement.org/
PRISMA http://www.prisma-statement.org/
COPE http://publicationethics.org/
ICMJE http://www.icmje.org/

35. Authorship
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
at http://www.icmje.org/ states authorship is based on:
1) substantial contributions to the conception and design of a
paper, or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation
of data, and,
2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important
intellectual content and final approval of the version to be
published.

36. JAN uses plagiarism detection software
ITHENTICATE http://www.ithenticate.com/

39. Retraction on the basis of plagiarism
“The retraction has been agreed due to overlap with other previously
published material written by third parties”

41. Retraction on the basis of duplication
“The retraction has been agreed due to duplicate publication of the
same article in two journals”

42. What to expect when you submit to JAN
Submission online
Rejection
Revisions
Accept
Response in 10 weeks
Immediate email acknowledgement and
MS number
Copyright
Transfer
Agreement

43. What to expect after acceptance by JAN
Acceptance
Edited manuscript returned to author for final points to
be addressed
Returned to Editor-in-Chief for final
check
Manuscript
to
production Proof issued for
correction
Published
online early
with doi
Published in JAN

45. Digital object identifier (doi)
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) System is for identifying
content objects in the digital environment. DOI® names are
assigned to any entity for use on digital networks.
They are used to provide current information, including where
they (or information about them) can be found on the Internet.
Information about a digital object may change over time,
including where to find it, but its DOI name will not change.
http://www.doi.org/

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47. • High standard, rigorous peer review
• Quality and reputation
• Immediate open access
• Fully compliant with all open access mandates
• Authors retain copyright–articles publish under CC-BY license
Open access research in all aspects of nursing
and midwifery practice, research, education and policy.
Editor
Roger Watson, University of Hull
www.nursingopenjournal.com

48. email: r.watson@hull.ac.uk
@rwatson1955
@jadvnursing
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