good hand or knee journals?

[MisterMo]

Hey all,

I have a case report and a small case series on two different musculoskeletal tumors. One focuses on Ewing's in the hand and another focuses on Fibroma of Tendon Sheath in the knee. Tried sending them to CORR, but they weren't interested. Does anyone have suggestions regarding where else I could submit these two papers? What are some of the "better" hand or knee journals? (as opposed to throw-aways)

[rwbrhp29]

For knee, I'd say the top tier is American Journal of Sports Medicine or Arthrocopy for sports stuff and CORR and Journal of Arthroplasty for arthroplasty. As yours doesn't really fit those types, I think it would depend on how it presented and how it was treated whether you'd go the sports or recon route. I know from my own unfortunate rejections from those journals though that case reports are tough to get in. So there are always Orthopaedics or American Journal of Orthopaedics...at least it will be published and referenced. Next in line for subspecialty journals would probably be Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy, or Knee, both of which are British journals I believe. I'd say those are the tiers of the top subspecialty journals, the next tier generalist journals, or the second tier subspecialty journals for a knee topic. Just my opinion...would like to hear others if you disagree, as I'm wondering the same things about a case report I'm trying to get in.

rwbrhp29