Scholarly Publishing and Copyright

Questions to consider:

• Who is your audience?
• How discoverable is the journal? Where is the journal indexed?  
• Will you retain your copyrights as author?
• Open Access vs traditional publishing model?

Tools to help select a journal:

• JANE - Journal Author Name Estimator
• JournalGuide.com  

Find information about journals:

• UlrichsWeb Global Serials Directory  
• DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals 
• Journals in NCBI Databases (PubMed, Medline, etc.) – will give link to journal's homepage.
• see Predatory Journals 
• see NIH Public Access Policy guide

Author instructions: 

• Find author instructions for specific journal on the publisher's website.
• Use journal or serial directories listed above to find journal/publisher websites.

Journal Metrics:

• Journal Citation Reports (Web of Knowledge)
  • Help for Journal Citation Reports
• Scopus Compare Journals
  • Help for compare sources in Scopus
• Scopus CiteScore metrics for serials
  • Tutorial on Sources (CiteScore metrics) in Scopus
  • "CiteScore metrics from Scopus are comprehensive, transparent, current and free metrics for serial titles in Scopus. Search or browse … to find a source and see associated metrics."

Author Citation Metrics:

• Scopus
• Web of Science
• Google Scholar

Read more:

• How to Select a Journal to Submit and Publish Your Biomedical Paper?   BioImpacts, 2012, 2(1), 61-68

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