POINT 1: EVALUATION OF THE JOURNAL QUALITY
- Journal Citation Reports (JCR), DOAJ, MyCIte: These platforms will help you to evaluate the quality of the journals from different perspectives such as Total Cites, Impact Factor, Quartile, Immediacy Impact, Eigen factor Score etc. From the data provided, then you may decide which journal is relevant to your needs. For instance, you may refer to the journal with high Immediacy Index (indicates how quickly articles in a journal are cited in the year of publication), in order to get an early citation.
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POINT 2: SELECTING THE RELEVANT JOURNALS
- Springer Journal Suggester, Elsevier Journal Finder. These platforms will suggest you about the relevant journals that you can consider to publish in, based on the manuscript of your research (usually you need to provide the title and abstract of research).
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POINT 3: BE AWARE OF THE PREDATORY/BLACKLISTED JOURNALS OR PUBLISHER
- Predatory or blacklisted journals is an explosive educational publishing enterprise model that involves charging publication charges to authors without checking or having checking and editorial reviewing the articles for best and legitimacy. Researchers will be misleading and tricked into publishing with them although some may be aware that the journals are poor high-quality or even fraudulent.
- How to avoid predatory/blacklisted journal? Click here.
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POINT 4: UNDERSTAND THE REVIEWING PROCESS
- Scirev, Medsci: – These platforms help you to identify how long the editorial reviewing process takes place, acceptance ratio, rejection duration, etc.
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