My area of research is in Blockchain Technology and would like to know where can I publish my work on Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology. Any suggestion on good journals to publish in would be much appreciated
Most recently this journal" Future Generation Computer Systems" focused on block-chain technology, it is high quality journal, you can consider in your account.
The previous responses already provide a very interesting list of conferences and papers. Generally speaking, many journals from numerous areas are interested in Blockchain-related papers. Additionally, conferences often have dedicated tracks. The target outlet mainly depends on your research focus and your experience as a researcher. If you have technical focus, you will find many good suggestions above. If your focus is more on the applications, then you can basically target any journal. The main problem with so-called top tier journals that I see is that the publication process can span several years. I therefore increasingly target open access journals such as "Frontiers in Blockchain" (which was not listed above), since the process is much faster. Of course, these journals charge a publication fee, which might be a problem for researchers with lack of funding.
Many good journals are announcing special issues in blockchain related research. You can sort out computer science journals from well known publisher such as springer, elsevier, ieee..
Currently some journals are focusing on blockchain, you can also consider, IEEE ACCESS, Journal of supercomputing, Future Generation Computer Systems, IEEE IoT journal etc.
However, if you want to go for a journal titled with "blockchain" you may find very new journals having no impact factor.
Hi, I am working in the same and I came to know this a tad late, but IEEE has a dedicated site for blockchain. It includes calls for both conferences and journals. Give it a look, it puts everything under one site, a huge convenience. Hope this helps!
If you need a rank, I would say ACM > Elsevier >= IEEE. IEEE's got a lot of Blockchain-related articles that are mostly doing some application-layer jobs rather than getting inside the Blockchain to solve the problems under the hood. Or in other words, top conferences have more valuable Blockchain studies than journals have.
I have been doing blockchain research on applications to fair academic publishing for two years now. Most of the many articles I have found are were not worth much to me as a scholar. I have found almost none in reputable computer science or information systems journals. The best articles I have seen are conference papers, and were not very helpful or reviewed carefully. I submitted my recent work (which advocates the elimination of traditional publishers and editors-in-chief) to a top journal in information systems. It was summarily rejected by the editor-in-chief ostensibly because I failed to mention "several important articles similar to mine". After carefully reading all of these, I found them to be only non peer reviewed preprints, industry white papers, etc., or published in what I now consider to be poor quality peer reviewed journals. One of these was a new journal, "Frontiers in Blockchain". The article that the EIC cited was written by authors who worked for blockchain startups or medical doctors looking for speaking engagements and other publicity. And the article was not at all similar to my work. If you don't care about journal impact factor, you might try that one.
Martin Wright Thanks Martin for sharing your experience. I also agree there are not many high-quality scholarly articles in reputed Journals. Most papers come from the Conference Proceedings or preprints.
You can target IEEE access and the Future Generation Computer Systems. We have previously published in them our works related to blockchain SenseChain (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167739X19312579) and ABCrowd (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8955886).
I suggest you Information Processing and Management, there are many published papers on blockchain-related topics in the last years. It is an hard job, but it's worth it!