To make informed decisions about scholarly publishing, an author should evaluate journals and publishers by asking the following questions:
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Journal impact measurements assess the prestige, importance, or rank of a journal in a particular field. Knowing the impact or importance of the journal can help you decide where to submit an article.
A citation-based research tool used to evaluate and compare journals’ impact factor, ranking, and other measures of influence.
Elsevier's journal evaluation metric used to identify and compare journal impact metrics across a wide range of journal titles and disciplines.
Elsevier's journal evaluation metric used to identify and compare journal impact metrics across a wide range of journal titles and disciplines.
An easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals in all subject areas, including academic/scholarly journals, peer-reviewed titles, trade publications, general interest magazines, and newspapers.
A Google Scholar tool that helps authors quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Scholar Metrics summarize recent citations to many publications, to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research.
Elsevier's journal finder tool that matchers authors' papers to scientific journals published by Elsevier by leveraging smart search technology and field-of-research specific vocabularies.
A free tool to search, filter, and sort to help authors find the best journal for their paper in any field. Authors can also select up to three journals to compare side-by-side on key factors such as impact, publication speed, cost, and open access options.
A publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database. These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.
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