Every journal has its metrics; impact factor, article influence score, eigenfactor, h-index…etc.
Cloud these indicators be necessary and sufficient criteria to decide whether a journal is excellent or not?
In my opinion, another factor could be important: “the reviewer’s expertise”. If someone would like for his paper to be well examined for better improvement, is there any way to know if the chosen journal can provide that?
I'd say that what you ask for is more likely to be achieved by an appropriate choice of an editor who handles your paper which should have some expertise in your subfield in order to choose proper referees.
As far as choosing a journal is concerned, one possibility to proceed is as follows: if you already have the title and abstract for your article, you can use the following tools from Elsevier and Springer to help you pick a right journal among those that belong to the respective publisher
http://journalfinder.elsevier.com
http://journalsuggester.springer.com
The output of these tools shows inter alia average article processing times and impact factors of the journals and, if I recall correctly, also publication fees and open access fees, if any.
In many journals you can publish free of charge if you do NOT make your article open access (i.e. it is available only to journal subscribers), but this should be checked for each journal separately.
Once you make a short list of potentially suitable journals, you can check whether they are covered by Scopus here
https://blog.scopus.com/posts/titles-indexed-in-scopus-check-before-you-publish
and by Web of Science here
https://mjl.clarivate.com
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