Scholarly Communications at Mount Sinai: Case Report Publishing

BMJ Case Reports contains thousands of peer-reviewed cases in many disciplines. It is the largest single collection of case reports online with more than 15,000 articles from over 70 countries. 

• Mount Sinai Authors can publish their work in BMJ Case Reports at no charge in the traditional subscriber-only access model.
• To publish open access, Mount Sinai authors get a discount of 25%.
• For the Mount Sinai institutional fellowship code, required to publish using either the traditional or open access model, login to the Library Resources Special Directions page.
• For BMJ Case Reports templates, click this link.

Many publishers are consolidating case reports into specific journals (like BMJ Case Reports, seen in the above box). How do you know whether the journal you're interested in publishing in accepts case reports? Use PubsHub!

PubsHub is a tool you can utilize to select the right journal targets for your article manuscript. One of the filters it has is "Accepts Case Reports". You can select this filter to see the journals in your selected specialty that allow submissions of case reports.

To search for journals that accept case reports:

1. Click on "Search Therapeutic Areas". This will open up a menu.

2. Select the discipline(s) of interest by checking the appropriate box(es). You will then see a list of journals.

3. Go to the Advanced Search Filters on the left side of the page, and scroll down to "Guidelines". Click on "Guidelines".

4. Click the radio button for Yes under "Accepts Case Reports". This will filter the list of results to journals that accept case reports.