Selecting Journals

Is it Maximizing Fake Revenues? Business schools teach the concept that when you have refined your model and proven that it generates profits, the worst thing to do is to sit back…

Single academic journal options are reserved for the most esoteric scientific niches. Beyond that, most fields have several journals competing for an audience, typically one with…

All Ranking is Relative If we are to discuss a better way to rank academic journals, we must first address who will be benefiting from that ranking system. As the industry stands…

“Megajournal” is a category of open access journals that have a selection criteria smaller than most other peer-reviewed journals. Megajournals contain articles from a wide variety…

Most of the commonly used measures of a research paper’s importance rely on counting citations of the paper. Altmetric (derived from Article Level Metrics) is an alternative…

How topical and important are articles published in journals? Which journals should a researcher skim through if he wants to keep up with new and exciting research? One measure…

Many journals brag about publishing up-to-date, cutting edge research and most researchers want to publish their work in such journals. Journal cited half-life, also known as…

Eigenfactor and impact factor are two widely used measures of a journal’s value. However, they measure two different factors and cannot be used interchangeably. Eigenfactor: How…

We all want to publish in internationally reputed scientific journals, those whose names bring instant respect and credibility. One measure of a journal’s importance is its…

Unlike private sector businesses, which may prefer to keep knowledge a trade secret, academic institutions have the free dissemination of all original research as their goal. This…

Open access publishing is the dream of every researcher: to publish papers that are instantly accessible to everyone and for free. There are now two versions of this dream.…

Before you begin to write your research article, it is essential to have a clear idea about the intended readers, the impact of your research, and the target journals that…