Struggling with identifying potential journals for your next article manuscript? This guide is intended to be helpful to faculty and student who are trying to identify quality journals in their discipline as well as find information/warnings about journals to avoid (for a variety of reasons).
For additional information specific to a given discipline, we recommend you contact your subject librarian and consult senior faculty in your department.
This guide is still being added to and edit. Feel free to email or chat with me if you have any questions or if you would like to see something on here that I have not added yet.
If you’re just starting out in your research career (or even if this is your first time publishing), one of the first challenges you might face is deciding which journal is right for your submission. With so many prestigious journals out there, which one is going to give you the best chances of publishing successfully? Based on the expert advice from publishers and authors, we’ve put together the guide below to give you an overview of the questions you need to ask and the points you need to consider in order to choose the RIGHT journal for your work.
Think. Check. Submit. helps researchers identify trusted journals and publishers for their research.
Through a range of tools and practical resources, this international, cross-sector initiative aims to educate researchers, promote integrity, and build trust in credible research and publications. Sharing research results with the world is key to the progress of your discipline and career but with so many publications, how can you be sure you can trust a particular journal? Follow this checklist below to make sure you choose trusted journals and publishers for your research.
Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.
For self-archiving policies:
1. Check your author agreement/contract.
2. Check SHERPA/RoMEO (for journal articles only)
3. Check publisher’s website for author rights and/or sharing policies.
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