Started reading a few selected journals on neuroinflammation and nerodegeneration to investigate what key word the authors were using to find their references.
My Key Words so far - A work in progress ....
Key Words:
Neuroinflammation, inflammatory,
Neurodegeneration, Parkinson’s disease
Bio-marker, blood, plasma, serum,
Dopamine, serotonin,
Substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc), hippocampus, neurons
How do I identify a journal that is likely to publish my systematic review?
To analyse this question, I did a preliminary database search that referenced neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration and Parkinson's disease in their key words or abstract and retrieved around 85 peer reviewed journal articles.
Next, each of the articles were uploaded into EndNote 9 and a comma delimited text file was exported to my references folder, then opened in Excel. This test failed as the file formatting was very untidy and could not be easily read.
This process involved creating a new style which included Tabs to delimit the fields. The Endnote reference export worked well this time showing author, year, title and journal name.
As each of these 85 test articles was deemed to be relevant, the excel database was then filtered by journal and the number of papers published in each journal was counted.
The test results below show that no single journal is a preferred publisher in this area and that the top three journals to investigate are the Journal of Molecular Biology, Neurobiological disorders and The Lancet Neurology.
