How to identify a journal for publication

Use a regular subject database to find articles relevant to your research, and observe which journals appear most frequently in the search results.

Citation data and the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) for thousands of journals included in Web of Science indexes.

Journal submission guidelines, acceptance rates, average time to review and publication, metrics, whether a journal is open access, and more. Strongest in business, computer science, education, health administration, nursing, psychology and psychiatry with coverage of other subjects. The "Journalytics" list includes journals that meet Cabell's screening criteria and provides, and "Predatory Reports" includes journals that do not.

Journal rankings based citation data from Scopus.

Compilations of journal rankings from multiple sources, primarily journals in the fields of business, economics, finance, accounting, management, and marketing.

Information on over 300,000 periodicals of all types: academic and scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more. Includes where a journal is indexed, whether it is open access, and whether it is peer-reviewed.

A centralized list of open access, peer-reviewed journals.

A platform for peer-reviewed, open access journals across the humanities disciplines with no author-facing publishing charges.

A non-profit open access publisher of journals across all areas of science and medicine, including the multidisciplinary journal PLOS ONE.

An open access publisher of scientific, technical, and medical journals.