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Publication Plan

Library resources for researchers Publication Plan

Researcher Resources

     Overview  Statistical tools and services  Data management  Publishing  Publication plan  Knowledge management  eResearch tools and services  Thesis submission  Flinders Academic Commons  Bibliometrics  Keeping up to date  Grey literature  Systematic reviews  Systematic literature searching  Open Access  Online researcher induction

Informing your publication plan

Journal find tools require the searcher/author to provide the article's title, keywords or abstract, and the Journal finder tool will identify a list of potential journal titles.

Some of these journal tools also provide a range of journal metrics allowing potential authors to identify highly ranked journals. When a journal finder does not include journal metrics, use Scopus or Journal Citation Reports databases to identify highly ranking journals.

NOTE: These tools have been developed by publishers, so keep in mind that your results will be limited to those publishers. These tools are also based on machine-learning algorithms and they may throw up some unusual options.

JournalGuide

JournalGuide is a free tool that helps researchers to evaluate scholarly journals. In addition to searching by journal name, category or publisher, authors can use the title and abstract of a paper to discover journals that have already published articles on similar topics. By matching journals to a paper’s content, researchers can see which journals would be most likely to have interest in their story.

SpringerNature

Select the journal that suits your research best from over 2,600 Springer publications.
The Springer Journal Suggester uses semantic technology to help you quickly choose the Springer journal that is right for your paper.

Elsevier Journal Finder

Elsevier® Journal Finder helps you find Elsevier journals that could be best suited for publishing your scientific article.

IEEE Publication Recommender

Search 170+ periodicals and 1500+ conferences

Compare critical points such as Impact Factor and Submission-To-Publication Time

Journal Metrics

What are Journal Metrics?

  • Journal metrics can support your publishing decisions
  • Derived from counting citations of articles.
  • Every tool or measure is different
  • Every measure has its limitation
  • Use a variety to support your decision

Web of Science

  • Eigenfactor score
  • Impact factor (IF)

Scopus 

  • CiteScore
  • SCImago journal rank (SJR) - prestige metric based on the number of citations received by a journal in a particular year and the prestige of the journals that make those citations
  • Source normalized impact per paper (SNIP)

Google Scholar

  • Google Scholar Metrics
Peer Review

Many publishers provide advice to authors on dealing with peer review reports and requests for revision:

Elsevier

3 top tips for responding to reviewer comments on your manuscript

American Journal of Experts

The Final Hurdle: Persuasive Responses to Peer Review

Predatory Publishing
  • Some indicators of legitimate publishers:
  • Membership to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
  • Entry in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
  • Publisher is a member of Open Access Scholarly Publisher Association (OASPA).
  • Publisher is a member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers(STM).

For help: use the site  THINK, CHECK, SUBMIT for guidance

Think, check, submit

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