you can choose the journal according to your work from the below links

https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/

https://journalsuggester.springer.com/

Good luck to you both! By the way, what discipline your journal is intended for?

Dear Manoj,

I am interested to start journal in disciplines like Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Agricultural sciences and Plant Biology.

Well, Dr. Ali and Dr. Bhaduria: I feel establishing credibility for a new journal is the biggest challenge. A huge multitude of open access paid journals are appearing these days; most of them falter at the initial stage of their initiation. Their editorial board is flooded with the incompetent and utterly irrelevant members. Their interaction with the prospective authors is disgustingly unprofessional. They end up giving the impression that they are running the journal only for their financial interest. Taking money, they are willing to publish your papers which are otherwise better suited for a dustbin. In view of this, I'd like to suggest you few things:

1. Choose a suitable name for the journal based on its scope. Try to accommodate a trendy word (like ENVIRONMENT) in its title. just an example: "Journal of Agriculture and Environment"

2. Don't try to publish it too frequently (monthly or bimonthly). Make it 4 issues per year; this will give you time required to publish quality papers.

3. Select, rather invite, competent researchers from the relevant areas with proven publishing record to join your editorial board. This gives first impression to your prospective authors.

4. If you are planning a paid journal, be clear with your page-charge policy. Don't compromise with quality.

5. Invite relevant reviews on trendy topics from the well-known researchers. This will improve visibility, utility and citation of your journal.

6. Keep provisions for the 'best paper award' sort of incentives to the prospective authors. People would like it. Very efficient way to popularize your journal!

7. Alternatively, you can think of establishing a Society, membership to which would be required for the 1st author or corresponding author.

I think these suggestions may be useful to you.

Go ahead with your plan,

Best Wishes,

Manoj Kumar

Dear Dr. Manoj,

Thanks a lot for such a nice and detail information. All these things are really helpful for establishing a good quality journal. I think, I must have to incorporate these very different steps to get started with the journal. One question is still unanswered that how can I develop the website/webpage for the journal. I am quite a layman in this regards, whether should I take some help from the software engineer or some computer scientist or I, myself can create the webpage as well?

Wishes

Dear Dr Ali: I think software for online submission system is available. details of these things are not known to me either. If you need any help in the matters I discussed earlier, you are welcome. Anyway, its really a brave step on your part. nothing is impossible. Go ahead!

Dear Muhammad,

Although you are unlikely to welcome my reply, I recommend you don't bother! Online open access journals have mushroomed out of all proportions in the last 5 years or so; far more so than the capacity of the research community to furnish good quality research manuscripts for them and good quality peer reviewers for articles to ensure that high standards are maintained: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access, and the Directory of Open Access Journals website (http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=news&nId=300&uiLanguage=en). This listed only 9000 something journals earlier this year, and today it says there are 10027!

Many online open access journals have got themselves a bad reputation with the scientific community because of unethical practices (publishing for a fee without peer review), and have been labelled predatory journals by Jeffrey Beall: http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/11/30/criteria-for-determining-predatory-open-access-publishers-2nd-edition/. A large proportion of these predatory online journals have, unfortunately, been traced to the Indian subcontinent (see http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full).

So, you will face an uphill struggle if you want to develop a new, ethical, high quality online open access journal. Better in my view not to try.

Best regards,

Steve

Dr. Steve:

your response is quite understandable given the recent upwelling of the open access journals; most of them have earned bad reputation and now tagged as predatory journals, and very rightly so. You also hinted on the unethical practices of publishing for a fee without peer review. But, I think these practices are absolutely under the control of the publisher, and if this could be controlled I don't see why a good quality open access journal can not be run successfully. PLOS ONE, CURRENT SCIENCE (INDIA) etc. are a few examples. In fact, to take care of all these challenges, I had enlisted in my earlier response some measures to be taken in this direction.

Publishers of these predatory journals are usually not having relevant academic background/support. They usually try their best to hide their identity (we are receiving paper requests from such publishers everyday). but these two are certainly not the case with Dr. MA Ali. He has a good publishing record and has come out in open to seek our advice without concealing his identity. If he has good intentions, I repeat good intentions, he should go for it.

Hello,

You might find the resources on the 'Starting an OA journal' page on the Australian Open Access Support Group website useful - http://aoasg.org.au/starting-an-oa-journal/ There are also some interesting case studies from academics and libraries discussing their experiences in doing it which could be insightful here - http://aoasg.org.au/oa-publishing-case-studies/

Danny

Dear Muhammad,

Maybe you can use this link http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/

You could integrated to your Institution Webpage too

We already developed such journal like this link :

http://journal.bakrie.ac.id/index.php/APJSAFE

Journal should focus only on specific area. It should be peer reviewed by subject experts (at least 2 reviewers). No compromise on quality of the article. In the initial stage of the journal, it should accept articles (scientifically new) without demanding for publication charges. Abstracting and indexing should be done by well known agencies. Processing of the articles should be done in a short period.

Dear Prof. Quarrie,

Thanks a lot, I have already gone through both the articles you have mentioned.

Yes now a days this is not easy to start an open access high quality journal due to the fact that OA journals have really broken out in the recent years.

However, there are some OA journals which have got impact factor as well with in very short period of time i.e. Plant Omics Journal (Southern Cross Publishers also included in Jeffrey Beall's List as well), rather a bit low quality in the past, but now they are publishing some good quality articles.

My opinion is that: Why not to pass the articles through the sieve of strong peer review process to increase the quality? Why not to publish a few good quality articles instead of many?

Yes it is not an easy nut to swallow but still, there are possibilities to start one. What is your opinion if we are able to maintain these things?

Dear Dr. Manoj,

Thanks a lot for your good intentions and encouraging comments and help.

Best wishes,

Dr Ali: I think some very useful suggestions have been posted in this forum; take care of those and go ahead. wish you good luck! Let us know when you are ready to launch.

A good option, used by many academic institutions is OJS.

Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research.

OJS Features

OJS is installed locally and locally controlled.

Editors configure requirements, sections, review process, etc.

Online submission and management of all content.

Subscription module with delayed open access options.

Comprehensive indexing of content part of global system.

Reading Tools for content, based on field and editors’ choice.

Email notification and commenting ability for readers.

Complete context-sensitive online Help support.

- See more at: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/#sthash.8YPqMSxG.dpuf

I am also interested to start an International journal.

you can choose the journal according to your work from the below links

https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/

https://journalsuggester.springer.com/

Following

see this site https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/

Journal finder

Dear Professors and Scholars,

We are in the process of launching an ejournal which is specifically looking at providing a platform for early career academics/research scholars. We are interested in Social & Strategic Studies domains. We intend bringing out our first publication in Sep-Oct 2019.

PhD scholars and young academics interested in being PEER REVIEWERS are welcome to mail [email protected] with their queries. Our website is under development, though the domain has been secured. We will obtain ISSN once the first publication is issued. Of course, papers in disciplines relevant to these domains are also welcome.

Have a great day.

Learning from the valuable suggestions