AJN Wants You! A Call for Peer Reviewers and Authors

Take your career to the next step—become a peer reviewer or author.

For over 118 years, AJN has presented its readers with timely and informative content to support best nursing practice and to examine issues of the day that are relevant to nurses and the profession. While that’s still our aim today, content development is more complex—it now includes peer review; fact-checking to ensure accuracy; citing evidence from the literature; ethical guidelines that govern editor, reviewer, and author behavior; careful editing to meet standards for quality writing; transparency to avoid bias and conflicts of interest. We’re proud of our commitment to high standards, and our success is borne out by the many awards we’ve received—more than any other nursing journal.

All of this wouldn’t be possible without the help of peer reviewers and authors, who commit to making the content we publish the best that it can be: timely, accurate, readable, and useful.

Peer reviewers are essential to any scholarly journal.

Peer-reviewing is also an excellent way for fledgling writers to better understand what editors look for in manuscripts. We welcome new reviewers who have expertise in nursing, are current with the literature and practice in their area of expertise, have a master’s degree or higher (or a BSN and certification in a specialty area), and are willing to review three to six manuscripts a year. CE credit is available for feature articles (QI reports, research, review papers). If you would like to peer-review for AJN, send your CV to: diane.szulecki@wolterskluwer.com.

AJN seeks authors of manuscripts on a wide variety of topics.

AJN publishes original research, QI, and review articles as primary feature articles and CE articles. We also publish shorter, focused columns. Submissions must be evidence based and are peer-reviewed. As a broad-based journal that covers all of nursing, our robust digital, print, and social media channels enable us to reach more nurses than any other nursing journal, so we generally get wide dissemination for our content.

Clinical features.

Clinical features should cover epidemiology, pathology, current research/what’s new in knowledge and/or treatment, and the nursing implications. Feature articles are usually in the range of 5,000 to 7,000 words. For examples of feature articles, see any of the CE articles on our website, www.ajnonline.com.

Clinical topics we currently seek manuscripts about include:

• • Community-acquired pneumonia; vector-borne diseases
  • Fecal transplantation for managing C. difficile
  • Orthopedic: spine disease/injuries (compression injuries); scoliosis
  • Acute and chronic neurological topics—Guillain-Barre syndrome and others
  • Migraine
  • Best practice in anticoagulant therapy, immunotherapy
  • Autoimmune and chronic disorders (rheumatoid arthritis; myasthenia; lupus, etc.)
  • Miscarriage
  • Update on managing hypovolemic shock
  • Toxic stress
  • Primary care topics (rosacea and other skin problems; managing chronic illnesses)

Columns are shorter, focused papers of 2,000–3,000 words.

AJN’s columns include: Disaster, Emergency, Environments and Health, In Our Community, Politics and Policy, Skin/wound Care, Disease Management, Professional Development, Acute Care Review (updates in practice), Mental Health Matters, A Question of Practice (relooking at care procedures/techniques), Teaching for Practice (info for new preceptors/instructors), Legal and Ethics, Emerging Infections, Issues & Trends, New Career and Post-Career Transitions, opinion pieces (Viewpoint), and narratives (Reflections).

AJN’s readership is comprised of mostly experienced nurses: just over half are hospital based; most (3/4) have a BSN or higher degree; many have master’s or higher degrees; and 40% are certified.

Queries

We encourage queries (diane.szulecki@wolterskluwer.com) and also encourage all prospective authors to review AJN articles at www.ajnonline.com prior to submitting.

For author guidelines, formatting, and submission information: www.editorialmanager.com/ajn

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