Journal Guide

AACN Advanced Critical Care offers more support to keep your critical care practice up to date. The journal has broadened its scope to cover the full range of critical care challenges, including moral distress in caregivers, understanding advanced modes of mechanical ventilation and preventing and managing complications of critical illness. In addition, the journal delivers the newest, most crucial advice on such topics as dealing with complex ECG rhythms, new critical care drugs and leading-edge technologies.As an official publication of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, AACN Advanced Critical Care is the premier source of information for the critical care and acute care nurse, CNS and NP. AACN members enjoy exclusive savings off the regular subscription rates. AACN members call 1-800-638-3030 to receive your special member rate.Website: www.aacnclinicalissues.com.

Vision:The AORN Journal will be an indispensable resource recognized for scholarly, evidence-based, peer-reviewed articles that convey standards of excellence and innovations in the delivery of perioperative nursing.Aims and Scope:The AORN Journal provides professional perioperative registered nurses with evidence-based practice information needed to help meet the physiological, behavioral, safety, and health system needs of a diverse patient population.Journal content supports the clinical, research/quality improvement, education, and management strategies related to the nurses role in caring for patients before, during, or after operative and other invasive and interventional procedures in ambulatory and inpatient settings.

Academic Pediatrics, the official journal of the Academic Pediatric Association, is a peer-reviewed publication whose purpose is to strengthen the research and educational base of academic general pediatrics. The journal provides leadership in pediatric education, research, patient care and advocacy. Content areas include pediatric education, emergency medicine, injury, abuse, behavioral pediatrics, holistic medicine, child health services and health policy,and the environment. The journal provides an active forum for the presentaton of pediatric educational research in diverse settings, involving medical students, residents, fellows, and practicing professionals. The journal also emphasizes important research relating to the quality of child health care, health care policy, and the organization of child health services. It also includes systematic reviews of primary care interventions and important methodologic papers to aid research in child health and education.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

Acta Paediatrica is a peer-reviewed monthly journal at the forefront of international pediatric research. It covers both clinical and experimental research in all areas of pediatrics including:

Acta Paulista de Enfermagem to publish original contributions in Sciences of the Health.Its abbreviated title is Acta paul. enferm., which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and bibliographical references and strips. The articles published in Acta Paulista de Enfermagem are indexed: * Comulative Index to Nursing and Allied Literature - CINAHL * Base de datos en Enfermería en Español, Sociological Abstracts - CUIDEN * Literatura Latina-Americana em Cincias da Saúde - LILACS * Base de dados em Enfermagem - BDENF * Biblioteca Virtual da Saúde - BVS * SCOPUS * ISI.

Activities, Adaptation, & Aging is the working tool for activity directors and all health care professionals concerned with the enhancement of the lives of the aged. Established as the primary journal for activity professionals, Activities, Adaptation & Aging provides a professional outlet for research regarding the therapeutic implications of activities on quality-of-life issues and overall life satisfaction for the elderly. The journal examines a wide spectrum of activities: activity-based intervention for persons with dementia; activity determinants in independent-living elderly; activity implications in a variety of settings; activity participation patterns; and activity implications for everyday practice. The journal addresses such important topics such as evidence-based practice, evaluation, assessment of psychosocial history, culture and its influence on meaningful activity, activities and caregivers, volunteerism, and successful aging. Activities, Adaptation & Aging fills an important quality-of-life niche in the field of gerontology. It is a highly regarded journal that continues to provide timely and useful research, case studies, and program evaluations Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research aims to improve the effectiveness of mental health and related human service programs by advancing research on services and the practice and process of administration in the mental health setting. This journal publishes peer-reviewed, original empirical research articles and administrative and policy notes, which are commentaries, observations, and/or opinions that are briefer and less research-oriented than articles. 5 Year Impact Factor: 1.005 (2007)Section 'Public, Environmental & Occupational Health': Rank 43 out of 70

Adolescent Psychiatry a peer-reviewed journal, aims to provide mental health professionals who work with adolescents with current information relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders in adolescents.

Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal is a peer-reviewed journal designed to meet the needs of advanced practice clinicians, clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners, health care professionals, and clinical and academic educators in emergency nursing. Articles contain evidence-based material that can be applied to daily practice. Continuing Education opportunities are available in each issue. Feature articles focus on in-depth, state-of-the-science content relevant to advanced practice nurses and experienced clinicians in emergency care.

Advances in Dual Diagnosis (ADD) offers peer-reviewed, practical and thought-provoking content and a forum for topical debate on dual diagnosis (co-occurring substance abuse and mental health conditions) and complex needs.

The main focus of Advances in Gerontology are biomedical aspects of aging. The journal also publishes original articles and reviews on progress in the following research areas: demography of aging: molecular and physiological mechanisms of aging, clinical gerontology and geriatrics, prevention of premature aging, medico-social aspects of gerontology, behavior and psychology of the elderly. The journal was founded in 1997.

Advances in Neonatal Care takes a unique and dynamic approach to the original research and clinical practice articles it publishes. Addressing the practice challenges faced every day--caring for the 40,000-plus low-birth-weight infants in Level II and Level III NICUs each year--the journal promotes evidence-based care and improved outcomes for the tiniest patients and their families. Peer-reviewed editorial includes unique and detailed visual and teaching aids, such as Family Teaching Toolbox, Research to Practice, Cultivating Clinical Expertise, and Online Features. Each issue offers Continuing Education (CE) articles in both print and online formats. The journal is a NANN Membership benefit, members receive the Journal as part of member dues.Visit: www.advancesinneonatalcare.org.

Consistently ranked as one of the most-read and most assigned journals by faculties of doctoral programs in nursing, Advances in Nursing Science (ANS) is the most stimulating publication in nursing science and education today. ANS is intellectually challenging, yet readable; innovative, yet scientifically sound and reliably researched. Each issue features a single timely research topic with exciting implications for patient care. ANS provides contributions to the development of nursing science and promotes the application of emerging theories and research findings to practice. Articles in ANS are peer-reviewed and chosen for their pioneering approaches and perspectives, which set the direction for nursing practice today.

Advances in Nutrition (AN/Adv Nutr) publishes literature reviews focused on key findings and recent research in all areas of interest to nutritional scientists and biomedical researchers. This would include nutrition-related research efforts directed toward biochemical, molecular, and genetic studies utilizing experimental animal models, domestic animals and human subjects. The other major foci of the journal are in the clinical nutrition, epidemiology and public health and nutrition education. Review articles will focus on progress made during the past few years rather than research developments over a broad historical timeframe.