LibGuides: Getting Started Publishing: Finding a Journal to Publish in

What to consider when choosing a journal

Questions to Ask:

What is the publisher's selection process?
Does the subject matter of the journal match your scholarship? Do the types of articles and their length guidelines match your submission?
Does the journal have an ISSN, and do articles have DOIs?
Are you and your colleagues familiar with the journal? Look at its affiliation and publisher, it's editorial board and the authors who publish in it.
Are articles peer-reviewed?
Is the journal indexed in a service or database that you use?
Who is the audience and what is the readership of the journal?
What are the copyright implications?
Are there options for open access? If so, what are the associated article processing charges (APCs)?

Think, Check, Submit

Think, Check, Submit: A coalition of scholarly publishers and associations collaborated to create a shortlist for authors to use when evaluating a journal for placing their research.

Journal Rankings & Impact

Eigenfactor.org
"A searchable database of Eigenfactor® and Article Influence® scores from 1997 to 2015."
SJR: Scimago Journal & Country Rank
Search Journal Titles or Browse Journal Rankings by Subject Area and Country.
Cabell's
Use Cabell's to help identify journals in your research area and determine which periodicals are most compatible with the style and content of your manuscipt.
ERIH: European Reference Index for the Humanities
ERIH is developed by and for European-language researchers.
Scopus CiteScore Metrics
Offers:
CiteScore metric - the total number of citations / total items published over a 3 year span.
SJR metric - The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
SNIP Metric: Invented by Henk Moed the SNIP: Source Normalized Impact per Paper measures a journals contextual citation impact.

Journal Suggesters from Publishers

JSTOR Text Analyzer
Drag and drop a copy of your article into the Text Analyzer and the tool will find similar content in JSTOR. You can then see which journals published similar articles.
Jane (Journal Author/Name Estimator)
Enter your title and/or abstract of the paper in the box, and click on 'Find journals', 'Find authors' or 'Find Articles'. Jane will then compare your document to millions of documents in PubMed to find the best matching journals, authors or articles.
Elsevier Journal Finder
Enter title and abstract of your paper to easily find journals that could be best suited for publishing. JournalFinder uses smart search technology and field-of-research specific vocabularies to match your paper to scientific journals.
IEEE Publication Recommender
Find the best match for your scholarly article.
Search 190+ periodicals and 1800+ conferences and compare critical points such as Impact Factor and Submission-To-Publication Time.
Springer Journal Suggester
Search all Springer and BMC journals to find the most suitable journal for your manuscript.

Getting Started Publishing

ORCID iDs

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Journal Directories

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What to consider when choosing a journal

Think, Check, Submit

Journal Rankings & Impact

Journal Suggesters from Publishers