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1- Factors to consider when choosing where to publish

2- Online Journal Selectors Finding a journal that is a good fit for your paper

Simply insert your title and abstract ( or just some key words )

in one of the following Free Web Search Tool

The Top Four Journal Selector Tools Database

1 www.journalguide.com Web of Science WOS

2 www.Journalfinder.elsevier.com Scopus- Elsevier

3 http://jane.biosemantics.org/ PubMed MEDLINE

4 www.journalsuggester.springer.com/ Springer & BMC

Journal quality

Journal Impact Factor (JIF) , Scimago journal ranking (SJR) . Timelines –

Acceptance rates, Time taken for peer review, Time to publish Indexing -

Will it be indexed in the major citation databases : (Scopus, Web of Science, MEDLINE, DOAJ )?

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3- Major Journals and Author Metrics

3.A- Journal Metrics

Journal Impact Factor ( IF)

Based on Web of Science citation data - Calculated annually JIF = the number of times articles published in the

previous 2 years have been cited in the year of reporting, divided by the number of citable items.

Accessible via website (Incites Journal Citations Reports)

you want to determine quality based on Journal Impact Factor or journal ranking

a publication is indexed in Web of Science

JIF cannot be used to compare across different disciplines

CiteScore

Based on Scopus citation data- Calculated monthly

CiteScore = the number of times documents published in the previous 3 years have been cited in the year of reporting, divided by the number of documents.

All types of documents (conference proceedings, letters etc.) are included in the CiteScore calculation rather than just research papers and reviews

CiteScores freely available, from Scopus

you want to determine quality based on CiteScore

a publication is indexed in Scopus

you want to include a range of documents

you want an alternative to JIF

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SJR SCImago Journal Rank Based on Scopus citation data

Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) is a ranking based on the

transfer of prestige from one journal to another calculations are similar to those of Journal Impact Factor but are

normalised for fields that don't cite much, and citations are weighted on the prestige of the citing journal

free resource available at www.scimagojr.com/ also accessible within Scopus – click Compare Journals on the

Scopus home page

a Journal Impact Factor is not available, and a publication is indexed in Scopus

you want to account for prestige of citing journals

investigating across different fields

Eigenfactor Based on Journal Citation Reports & Web of Science citation data

citations from highly cited journals influence the score more than citations from lesser cited journals excludes self-citations calculated by citation received in the year from publications in

the previous 5 years

publications are indexed in Web of Science

an established researcher

SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)

Based on Scopus citation data

SNIP is the ratio of a source's average citation count per

paper and the 'citation potential' of its subject field allows direct comparison of sources in different subject fields

publications are indexed in Scopus

you want to account for variations in citing patterns within disciplines

investigating across different field

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3.B-Author Impact

h-index (and its variants)

H-index

The h-index tends to favour those in a later stage of career or those in fields that actively cite and publish. It can only increase over time and is not a measure of current productivity.

The h-index is equal to the number of publications (h) which have been cited at least h

times.

Example: ….this researcher has 5 publications cited at least 5 times. Therefore they have a h-index of 5.

The m-index may help in the comparison of early-career and established researchers.

The m-index equals the h-index divided by the number of years of activity.

The i10 index was created by Google Scholar. If you have created a free Google Scholar profile, you can find your i10 index in the My Citations feature of your profile.

i10-Index is the number of articles cited (by others) at least 10 time

For more details

http://guides.lib.monash.edu/research-impact-publishing/journal-quality

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