Publishing Strategy - visibility of the journal

To consider:
Is the journal indexed by the major reference databases Web of Science and Scopus and by Google Scholar?

 Why?
National allocation of research funds to the universities and allocation of research funds within SLU is partly based on bibliometrics. The data source for this is Web of Science.

Some research funders use Scopus data.

Most universities have access to at least one of these reference databases which means that  most researchers around the world can search for and retrieve your publications.

Google Scholar is widely used  by some researchers and editors.

Comment
Usually you can find information on which databases that index the journal on the journal homepage, e.g. PloS ONE or Environmental Health.
It is even better if more databases also index the journal

To consider:
Is the journal Open Access (OA)? Is parallel publishing/self-archiving allowed?

Why?
Several funders require Open Access publishing of research results.Note that the journals don't have to be Open Access for allowing the author to parallel publish. Parallel publishing fulfills the funders Open Access criteria.  See About Epsilon.
You get enhanced visibility, see Epsilon Open Archive dissemination scheme.

Comment