Goal: To identify and evaluate QI-friendly journals & prepare your manuscript for submission.
Identifying good journal contenders to consider for submitting a QI project manuscript to can be a bit tricky because not all scientific/medical journals are equally QI-friendly. As with any research dissemination, however, trying to reach the right audience should be top of your list for guiding your search to find a good journal match. (Explore additional considerations in the Support for Authors LibGuide).
That said - if journals whose scope includes sharing findings about improving the quality of healthcare is on target with what you are looking for, below are some tips for searching for these options.
PubsHub - https://libguides.mskcc.org/pubshub
Keyword searching using words like "quality" in the PubsHub "Journals" module returns journal results with the keyword in their title but also when mentioned anywhere else in the journal's PubsHub profile page, including the "Scope" field/section.
NLM Catalog: Journals referenced in the NCBI Databases
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog
Similar to PubsHub, keyword searching using terms like "quality" in the NLM Catalog can lead to a comprehensive list of potential options that can then be further evaluated in other tools.
JANE: Journal/Author Name Estimator
This free web tool uses text-matching functionality and PubMed data to help you identify the most appropriate journals for submitting a manuscript to (primarily for papers covering biomedical and clinical research). It works on the logic that if a journal has published a study on a similar topic in the past, it is more likely that the journal's editors will be interested in publishing on this topic again in the future.
The JANE search interface allows users to enter the title, abstract, and/or keywords of an unpublished paper into a text box that is then used to run the query. The search results returned include a list of journal contenders, along with the actual articles indexed in PubMed on which the resource's decision (to include them as reasonable options to consider for manuscript submission) was based.