The AORN Journal is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 nursing journal in the field of perioperative nursing

Perioperative nursing

Perioperative nursing is a nursing specialty that works with patients who are having operative or other invasive procedures. Perioperative nurses work closely with surgeons, nurse anesthetists, surgical technologists, and nurse practitioners...

 and is the official journal of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services: CINAHL

CINAHL

CINAHL is an index of English-language and selected other-language journal articles about nursing, allied health, biomedicine and healthcare....

, Index Medicus

Index medicus

Index Medicus is a comprehensive index of medical scientific journal articles, published since 1879. It was initiated by John Shaw Billings, head of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army...

/MEDLINE

MEDLINE

MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care...

, the Hospital Literature Index, the International Nursing Index, and RNdex Top 100.