Identify Potential Journals
Suggestion on approaches you can use
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Use the list of selected journals with links to Journal Impact Factor and information regarding Open Acces and parallell publishing if your research is within animal health and welfare ( see right column) and/or
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For your subject search question/-s and/ or search for key authors
From the search result in the referencedatabases Web of Science and Scopus you can look under Refine Results>Source Titles. There you can see the journals that are most frequently used within your field of research.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) – check relevant subject categories and sort by different indicators e.g. Impact Factor (IF)
Scimago Journal &Country rank (SJR) – check relevant subject categories and sort by the indicators SJR or H-index
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For potential journals that you have identified
Read Choosing a journal - bibliometric aspects
In JCR – look at the complete information for the journal e.g. number of issues/year, Immediacy Index, %self citations.
In Scopus - go to Analytics (from the top menu), in the Journal Analyzer you can compare journals by different metrics.
In SHERPA/RoMEO- check if parallell publishing is allowed and/or the journal is open access
At the journal homepage, check
>scope of journal - topic, type of studies
>the author information –how is the procedure for the peer review process
>some articles to get a picture of the time from acceptance to publishing
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Publish in a mega journal?
In recent year a new type of journals has emerged, known as mega journals. They are Open Access, have broad subject scope (not selective regarding subject), peer reviewed and have rapid publication (from submitted to published).
The most interesting with these mega journals are that they are not selective regarding subject (within a broad subject scope), which means that the publications are only judged by scientific and methodological soundness. The readers decide wether an article is interesting, not the editors. This also speeds up the publication process.
Examples of mega journals
- PLOS ONE – all disciplines within science and medicine
- Scientific Reports – all areas within natural sciences
- SAGE Open - social and behavioral sciences and the humanities
- Biology Open - all aspects of the biological sciences
- ChemistryOPEN - all aspects of chemistry
- SpringerPlus - all STM disciplines
- PeerJ - biology and medicine
PLOS ONE was the first mega journal and has been very successfull. It started in 2005/2006 and got its first Impact Factor in 2009. The other journals are quite recently started, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) is now indexed in Web of Science and gets its first Impact Factor in 2013/2014.
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