Index your journal in Pubmed Central

Prior verification

Check if your journal is not already indexed in Pubmed: list of journals.

Criteria for selection

Information required for assessment

• The publication must have a title and an ISSN
• Date of first publication and frequency of publication
• Journal’s URL
• The journal’s website must include: an editorial committee, an editorial policy, a peer review process and an ethics statement.
• Name and publisher details.

First assessment

Relevant criteria to determine if the journal is within Pubmed’s scope:

• Peer review policy
• Fields: life sciences and biomedical
• The affiliations of the editorial committee and authors should reflect their independence and the journal’s main fields
• The articles submitted should pertain to the following: scientific articles, clinical case reports, articles in connection with a data set, descriptions of surgical or clinical procedures.

Assessment of scientific quality

• Editorial policy
• Quality of content: clarity, logic, scientific method…
• Quality of figures and tables
• Language quality
• Article layouts
• Editorial committee and authors: affiliations, relevance to the journal’s scope
• Frequency of publication

Technical assessment

Minimum criteria: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/pub/min_requirements/

Pubmed requests the following files:

• Full text XML
• High resolution, uncompressed images
• PDF file matching the XML file
• Additional material
• Maximum file size: 2 GB
• Compressed files sent by FTP (file naming here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/pub/filespec-delivery/#naming-artd-table)

Application form

Pubmed Publisher portal : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/publisherportal/

Re-submission opportunity

Possibility to reapply after 2 years.