The guides and tools below will help you in choosing an appropriate venue for your scholarly work. 

In a nutshell, when looking for a journal in which to publish, consider the following:

• Are you or your colleagues familiar with the journal?
  • what is the reputation of the journal?
  • who is the publisher?
  • do you recognize members on the editorial board?
  • can you easily identify and contact the publisher?
• Does the journal specify:
  • peer review process?
  • what fees may be charged and why?
• Does the journal have an ISSN?
• Is it indexed in reputable periodical or journal indices?
• What are the journal's copyright policies?

How to Select a Journal for Your Research (2023)
Detailed information and tips and tricks to select a suitable peer-reviewed journal.

Resources to Help You Select a Journals in which to Publish

Cabells Scholarly Analytics

Source for journal info, evaluation metrics, and submission details! The Journalytics helps you find quality publications and match your manuscript to the right publication based on your topic, the type of review process, acceptance rate, impact factor, and more.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Over 10,000 journals covered. To identify journals in your discipline, browse by subject and limit results to "Journals."

Journal/Article Name Estimator (JANE)

Enter your article title or abstract and JANE will provide a list of journals that may be appropriate for your submission. JANE matches your title, abstract, or keywords to millions of documents in MEDLINE to help determine the best journals for your research.

Harzing Journal Quality List

A collection of smaller, well-regarded journal rankings lists. Its intention is to give scholars a tool to "target papers at journals of an appropriate standard." The Harzing list is mostly comprised of journals from the disciplines of Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management, and Marketing.

 

ABDC Journals List

Curated by the Australian Business Deans Council, this search tool includes journals that are currently ranked in the ABDC Journal Quality List. The search tool is current to the most recent update. No ranking changes have been made since 2022. 

MLA International Directory of Periodicals

Contains information on over 6,000 journals and book series that fall within the scope of the MLA International Bibliography.

You may want to use impact measures to choose a journal in which to publish because these measures can be seen as a proxy for quality or influence within a field. One of these measures, "Impact Factor," is frequently associated with Thomson-Reuters' Journal Citation Reports (JCR). WSCU does not subscribe to JCR, but you can use the resources listed below to evaluate a journal's impact in other ways.

Scimago Journal and Country Rank

Scimago Journal and Country Rank (Scimago JR) uses Scopus data to compare journals by h-index and average citations per published document, as well as to rank countries by scholarly output.

Elsevier Journal Metrics

Access three different measures of citation impact: Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), Impact per Publication (IPP), and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR).

EIGENFACTOR.org

Eigenfactor scores are intended to give a measure of how likely a journal is to be used, and are thought to reflect how frequently an average researcher would access content from that journal.