Selecting Journals

Journal selection matters more than journal prestige. While many researchers default to “top‑quartile” (Q1) journals because of perceived prestige, this single metric can mislead…

Scientific journals are supposed to publish accurate, honest, peer-reviewed articles, providing sources for scientists to find important information for their own research. There…

The open access (OA) movement advocates for equitable knowledge sharing and facilitates access to academic research. It has revolutionized academia by removing paywalls, thereby…

The journal editors were in a bind. There’s a flux of new submissions and each is better than the other. On the one hand, they liked the 4 submissions from one author whose…

The International Open Access Week 2022 is fast approaching and the scientific community yet again gathers in high spirit to engage in the celebration. Open access week is an…

The article is also available in: Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian “I think you should go ahead and publish it on a preprint platform. Your research is a crucial…

Open Access (OA) has revolutionized scholarly publishing. It builds on the objective of unrestrained knowledge sharing. Fundamentally, OA is when publications are freely available…

Never in the last hundred years has the world been ravaged by a pandemic that has brought everything to a standstill. As the ramifications of the novel coronavirus are still…

Scientific journals have been around since the inception of Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions in 1665. As a researcher, publishing your work plays a big role in advancing…

As a scientist or a researcher, you make huge strides in advancing knowledge in the STEM field. Your healthcare interventions can save lives, change the way we understand science…

As science becomes increasingly collaborative and inter-disciplinary, researchers have to ensure that critical research is tapped in time! Research scholars who wish to publish…

Journal rejections are common, irrespective of the researcher’s academic career. The acceptance rate of scholarly journals is an important selection criterion for authors when…