Which journal is best for your paper?
- Find your audience
- Which journals do you read?
- Online journal finders
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals
- Use this search engine to locate journals and other resources. Start by searching key terms associated with your manuscript. Results will show journals that cover your topic.
- https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/
- https://journalsuggester.springer.com/
- https://journalfinder.wiley.com/
- These three search engines are publisher-specific and will return results within their own journal catalogs.
- http://jane.biosemantics.org/
- JANE is an independent search engine based on PubMed data.
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals
- Impact factors: may not always be the best criteria
- Indexed in PubMed: papers published in PubMed indexed journals may be found more easily by readers
- Open access journals
- Worth the cost? Do I have the funds?
- Reputation of journal: do some searching; who are the editors? How long has the journal been publishing?