Finding a place to publish your research can be difficult. This is not just because of the many varieties of publishers there are available or the threat of predatory publishers. Locating an appropriate place for your work often requires a great deal of research in itself because in choosing a publication, one is trying to match their work to a reputable journal that also provides significant exposure. A journal's prestige or quality may be determined by its citation index and bibliometrics, but also by other critical standards within the field or discipline.
When considering where to submit your work to, the following should be considered:
Open Access Best Practices - The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association's (OASPA) offer a list of best practices to those interested in publishing.
ICMJE Accredited or Recommended Journals - This publication lists and describes various reputable journals within the medical publishing industry (also on predatory publishing tab).
Retraction Watch - This site tracks article retractions and reviews articles that have been retracted from certain journals (also on the predatory publishing tab).
InCites Journal Citation Reports - Search for a journals impact factor. (Thomson Reuters)
INANE - The International Academy of Nursing Editors website provides a list of vetted nursing journals to consider in their Journals Directory section.
Sherpa/Romeo - This is a database of publisher's policies. It also features recommendations about self-archiving policies for Open Access repositories.
Think, Check, Submit - The Think, Check, Submit campaign was launched to help scholars successfully evaluate the criteria of journals in their field.
Institute for HealthCare Improvement - List of links guiding students and preliminary researchers to resources and guidelines regarding publication.
MedEDPortal - Cross-disciplinary publishing platform and formal submission portal for medical professionals and educators.
SCOPUS Sources - Source details in the Scopus database (provided by subscription through the TTUHSC libraries) offer information and journal metrics on various journals.
Scimago - Offers a list of journals by subject and discipline, ranked according to impact factor and other metrics.
Publishing can be a challenge. But fortunately many databases and websites have begun developing journal finding tools to meet scholars' needs. Journal finding tools, or journal finders support authors and researchers by matching a manuscript to a potential journal. Often this is done by uploading an abstract and tracking what the search tool finds as a potential journal match. However, other tools can help to wed research to a worthy enough source.
Clarivate Analytics and Web of Science partner to supply a journal manuscript matcher within the citation software EndNote. In addition to the abstract match tool, Endnote coordinates the access points of your citations to match various points of interest within available journals. It is a newer technology, but allows for the Web of Science database to coordinate citation connections to identify meaningful relationships between these publications and your own citation data. You will need an EndNote software package for this tool.
