The right publication format helps research reach the audience most likely to use it.
JoVE Journal now publishes five article types, including Reviews, Case Reports, and Rapid Reports. This gives authors more ways to share focused findings, clinical insights, and broader perspectives.
Here's what each format offers authors and their readers.
Rapid Reports: Share focused findings sooner
- ▪️ Rapid Reports support the quick dissemination of single experiments, pilot and replication studies, datasets, and method optimizations.
- ▪️ This short format is peer-reviewed and citable. JoVE targets a first decision within 14 days, helping authors establish priority and share important work that might otherwise remain unpublished.
- ▪️ The inclusion of a professionally produced video supports reproducibility and makes your work easier for other researchers to understand and apply.
Review Articles: Help readers navigate a complex field
- ▪️ Reviews are suited to summarizing the state of a field or area of clinical practice.
- ▪️ Authors can connect key findings, explain recent developments, and identify future research directions. This creates a clear reference for readers while drawing attention to important primary research.
- ▪️ Video helps explain mechanisms, workflows, and clinical concepts that are difficult to communicate through text alone, making complex or lengthy topics more accessible.
Case Reports: Share clinical insights with peers
- ▪️ Case Reports document the condition, treatment, and outcome of a single patient.
- ▪️ They give clinicians and researchers a structured format for sharing rare or instructive cases, unusual presentations, diagnostic challenges, and emerging treatment approaches. These reports can help others recognize similar cases and consider how a clinical decision was made.
- ▪️ Video helps preserve clinical and procedural details that may be difficult to capture fully in writing.
Plan Your Format Early
Rapid Reports, Reviews, and Case Reports each support a different publishing goal. Authors can share timely results, provide direction in a complex field, or document rare clinical observations for others working with similar cases.
JoVE’s video format helps authors make these contributions easier to understand, discover, cite, and apply. Articles are indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science, Scopus, and other major databases, extending their reach across research, clinical practice, and education.