Selecting Journals

In this article, we will explain how to further narrow down your search for a target journal. But before moving further, let us recap Steps 1 to 3. Step 1: List the field of…

Chew (1991) surveyed manuscripts rejected by the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) to investigate whether they had been published. If yes, then when and where. The results…

The open access movement offers a number of advantages to people cutting across all sections of society. Access Most journals and repositories do not impose access costs on the…

The Open Access approach is on the whole complementary to traditional publishing. It utilizes both new technological developments and their wide proliferation to ease the…

Impact factor plays a deciding role in helping researchers select the right journal for publication. Journal editors and editorial boards will also track an internal measure of the…

The process of selecting the appropriate journal has become increasingly complex due to the proliferation of journals, areas of specialization, and emergence of interdisciplinary…

Journals have differing recognition factors, which can be specific to a field or applicable across multiple disciplines. The quality and impact of the journal is usually apparent…

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Whether you like it or hate it you can’t ignore impact factor (IF). Touted by its supporters as a measure of how important a journal is within it field, IF is basically a measure…