Hi Dear Seyed_Mehdi_Mohammadizadeh

Please see this question and answer:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Where_is_the_latest_and_most_complete_fake_and_hijacked_journal

Please check the web site of ISI Thomson Reuters, you will find a list of good journals with impact factor.

You must also check the whether the particular Journal is listed on SCOPUS or not.

I addition, you may check the following groups:

1. Science direct

2. Inderscience

3. EMERALD

4. Taylor & Francis

5. Sage

6. Springer

7. Cambridge

8. Interscience

9. Wileyonline

10. Etc.

Dear Dr. Subhash C. Kundu

Many thanks for your answer and guidance.

I need to get some information about  5-year impact, current impact factor, paid access and classification of journals. May you elucidate them?  

Sincerely,

S. M. Mohammadizadeh

Dr. Kundu

I have the same question as Mr. Mohammadizadeh. Paid Access and Classification of journals are obscure issues for me.

Hi Dear Seyed_Mehdi_Mohammadizadeh

Please see this question and answer:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Where_is_the_latest_and_most_complete_fake_and_hijacked_journal

Dear All,

I believe you should check ASCE, Science direct, Springer and Elsevier...

Hi Dear Mostafa Eidiani

Thank you for your useful link.

Dear Arman Dahmardeh & Dear Armin Keshavarz

Thanks a lot for your attention and answer.

Dear Dr. Giuseppe Cotellessa

Thanks for your answer but I think there is a problem in your answer because it is not related to my question.

Thanks

sincerely,

S. M. Mohammadizadeh

For the impact factor portions of your question, you can likely develop an opinion after looking into the definitions and how they are calculated, and if this is an important factor to you and where you submit. 

In terms of where to submit, the advice I usually give is that when you are doing your research you often find certain papers from a given small set of journals that you find most informative and useful to you. From this set of papers a new researcher can often find select the right journal. While there are lots of journals, there are a limited number that are appropriate for a given area of research. From this smaller set, it should have guided you to where the paper will find its best audience (e.g., if a methods paper, applications, summary, etc.).  Good luck to you in your research!

Also, regarding blacklist. Can have a look at the blog by Beall, Scholarly Open Access. It has a list of Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers. Can search by publisher or specific journal. By journal link is below: 

http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/

Dear Dr. Lachezar Hristov Filchev

Many thanks for your perfect answer and useful links. Also Paid Access and Classification of journals are obscure issues for me and some of new researcher.  May you explain those options?

Sincerely, 

S. M. Mohammadizadeh

 Dear Dr. Michael Wulder

Thanks a lot for your attention, time and complete answers.

Do you think which factors can be more effective and important factors than IMPACT FACTOR in process of finding a convenient journal for submit my article?

Regards, 

S. M. Mohammadizadeh

Dear Seyed Mehdi Mohammadizadeh and all,

All journals indexed by  ISI Thomson Reuters and/or SCOPUS.

Try the journals in this link:

www.cimagojr.com/journalrank.php

Regards

Hi Dear Dr. Fateh Mebarek-Oudina

I'm glad to to see your answer. Thanks a lot for your perfect guidance and useful links.

May you explain about which factors are most important to find/choose a convenient journal for submit an article?(Such as 5-year impact, current impact factor, paid access and classification of journal)

Hi dear all 

Thank you for your guidance for finding journal. I understand about the main question. But up to present moment, no one answer to the another questions (May you explain about which factors are most important to find/choose a convenient journal for submit an article?(Such as 5-year impact, current impact factor, paid access and classification of journal))

Regards,

Yarmohammadi

I think the range of possible journals, the importance (or not) of impact factors etc. have been well explained & various links have been provided. I think however, that YOU have to decide what is important to YOU ...

These types of question are only answerable by YOU, so other than giving you something more to think about .... I don't think I have answered your question either !!

Terrific response Nicholas!  

The question has already been well answered by the researchers, but let me add my reply.

Impact factor is measured  by Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Report (JCR) based on based on specific algorithm. 5 year impact factor maintains and calculates the cumulative impact factor of a journal for last five years. Whereas, current impact factor only calculates the impact within the current single year.

Paid Access refers to journal libraries and databases that require paid subscription to their databases, for a user to download their resource (i.e Research papers, book chapters, datasets, etc). Mostly universities already have subscription to these libraries, such as ACM, IEEE, SCOPUS, etc.

Classification of journals in my point of view (I may be wrong here) refers to the three tiers of ranking for journals, i.e Tier-1, Tier-2, and Tier-3 journals.

Often, there are 4 'tiers'.  How are they ranked?

"The citation system simply decides the ranking. It is a simple calculation. The total number of citations and articles over a period of two years, to get the impact factor for a journal. The total journal titles in a specific subject category are then arranged by the impact factor in descending order. After this, they are divided equally into four groups. The first group reflects the top 25% of journal titles and is referred to as Tier 1. Tier 2 contains the next 26-50%, Tier 3 from 51 to 75% and finally Tier 4 is for the rest from 76 to 100%. The tier levels can change as the impact factors of the journals change. Similarly, it can also change with the increase or decrease in the total

number of journals in any subject category.”

http://www.staff.blog.utm.my/pszresearchsupport/2012/08/04/of-tiers-and-rankings-scimago-sjr/

Dear Dr. Zeeshan Bhatti

Many thanks for your attention, time and complete answers.

Hi Dear Dr. Nicholas E Rowe

I rejoiced when I see your answer. Thank you for your attention, time, perfect guidance and useful links.

Regards,

S. M. Mohammadizadeh

It depends what you are looking for. If you are just starting and you have a small interesting paper not a high impact paper that would potentially interest Science or Nature then i would find a decent journal in your field and publish there. You need to figure out what you audience is (i do not know where you are in your field i am guessing you are advanced). If you want more say seismologists to read it then if it fits it should go to BSSA classic journal for seismologists. If it has another audience or a wider audience you might want for example Natural Hazards.

Very interesting discussion going on....

My senior friends have not left anything to me to say...

Dear Dr. A. Barberopoulou 

Thanks for your valuable comment.

 Thanks alot for your attention Dear Dr. Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav

Dear Seyed Mehdi Mohammadi Zadeh.

Here the were a lot of good answers.

It is very difficult to say something else.

Dear Dr. Vyacheslav Lyashenko

Many thanks for your attention and comment.

Dear  Seyed_Mehdi_Mohammadizadeh

Watch this video from Web of Science-Journal Impact Factors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtZF2SzTDTY&feature=youtu.be

Also, our fellows give perfect answers.

Best regards.

 Generally speaking peer review journals (these are the only ones we have in Geophysics) are definitely better. If you want to advance in your academic career you want scientific journals that go through peer review. Conference papers are good but i would keep them brief and then make a more detailed study for a journal article. Since you are in Civil Engineering EERI journals are good. For me that I also look at Coastal Engineering audience other journals could also be useful. Thank you

Please go for the publications Science direct, Inderscience, Taylor & Francis, Sage, Springer, Cambridge and Wileyonline etc. are the standard publications having most of their journal are SCI indexed which are the most preferable in current scenario and have almost impact factor above 1.

Dear Dr. Mohammed I. Younis

Thanks a lot for your valuable comment and link.

Dear Dr. A. Barberopoulou

Thank you for convenient guidance. What is your idea about ASCE Journals (American Society of Civil Engineering)? I need to find POROUS MEDIA/Hydraulic engineering audience in Civil engineering. 

I think that the aims and scopes of Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering (ASCE) are related to my case study (Article).

Best regards,

S. M. Mohammadizadeh

http://ascelibrary.org/journal/jhyeff

http://ascelibrary.org/journal/jidedh

Many thanks for your useful comment dear Dr. D.B. Jani 

Hi Seyed

i think generally speaking ASCE has good journals. It is the main organisation representing Civil Engineers in the US and internationally. Definitely a good place to publish. So do not worry about it early stage. First write your paper and before it is finalised see ASCE and possibly other publishing companies like your colleague very nicely mentioned above. I am also in the editorial board and reviewer of some David Publishing journals but Springer is also big as well as some others.

Dear Dr. Dario Donnarumma

I believe that you have a lot of experience in Porous Media, and I'm glad to use of your help and guidance. Thank you for your comment.

Regards,

S. M. Mohammadizadeh

Dear Dr. A. Barberopoulou

Thanks a lot for your answer. I should suggest some reviewers to which journal that I want to submit my article. Do you allow me to introduce you as one of my reviewers suggestion? My article is about a new method to analysed the flow through porous media in network modeling. 

sincerely,

S. M. Mohammadizadeh

Dear Dr. Elisa Correa

Thank you for your attention, time, perfect guidance. May you tell me some information about the PhD positions in Brazil? (For international students-In Water Engineering, Civil Engineering)

Sincerely,

Mehdi

Dear Seyed Mehdi

Attached file may be helpful to you

Best Wishes

Dear Dr. YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Many thanks for your valuable comment and links.

Regards

New researcher must find the journal from authentic groups of journals, even may get some guidance from seniors.

Dear Seyed Mehdi, i think young researchers and students are always supervised by elder researchers, advisers, and professors. So the best and easy mean is to follow their advises and their customs with their publishing editors

Dear All,

I 'm very glad to see and use of prolific comments of Dr. Subhash C. Kundu And Dr. Fairouz Bettayeb. I appreciate of them for their guidance.

The appropriate journal depends of your used language, the notoriety you like to get, the aid you are disposed to give to the editors or societies, etc. With all it is possible to pass a time without success, but if you descend the ribbon it would be more easy to find a place for your research.

The new researchers are always in need for senior researcher to guide them from A to Z and  one of the issue is the selection process which should be for good journal which fits with the manuscript

Thanks a lot for your attention and comment Dear Dr. Mariano Ruiz Espejo and Dear Dr. Mohamed A Yassin.

Dear Dr. Ivo Carneiro de Sousa

Many thanks for your attention, time and beneficial answer.

Best regards,

S. M. Mohammadizadeh

Context of the work, audience reach and the time taken in publication are the major determining factors for selection of journal.  However, the process by which a journal decides to accept or reject a given article is often mysterious. The area of publication is rapidly changing, with new publication opportunities like open access electronic journals in addition to traditional print journals that are also adopting new technology. The prime of publishing research is to communicate findings and ideas to a broader audience than one's immediate circle. Another aspect is repute and scientific standing of the journals as they certify the scientific value of an individual author's work. They provide access to reliable knowledge, and at the same time confer scholarly prestige that facilitates career advancement. At best, the right choice of a journal should be aimed at rapid publication of an article that achieves the exposure and credit it deserves. Pl refer following thread:- 

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/whats-the-best-journal-for-my-paper-new-tool-can-help

To publish a paper we should select a journal already followed by experienced reacherchers.

Dear Sayed,

I suggest you to follow regularly the scientific publications of your area and speciality. Try to publish in scientific conferences, have a good professional relationship with your colleagues working at the same or similar subjects.  

Thanks for your attention and valuable comments Dear @ Dr. YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI , @ Dr. César Rodrigues and @ Dr. András Bozsik.

Best way is to select the journal among st  the journals , which you have cited in references.

I am sharing a similar question on Research gate by Dr.  Mahfuz Judeh . There are interesting discussion and opinions expressed therein.

On which basis you choose a journal for publishing your scientific research?

Dear @ Dr. Roland Iosif Moraru and @ Dr. D.P.S. RATHORE

Thank you for your attention and comment.

Dear All,

In my opinion, the criteria for choosing a good journal may be different from one researcher to another. A researcher may give more priority to speed while another may give priority to who is the publisher. Sometimes, you can save time if you send your paper to the appropriate journal instead of waiting a long time until you get an approval or rejection from a higher impact journal.

Dear Arman Dahmardeh

Your answer is highly appreciated. The points of view that you stated about choosing the good publishing journal is rich and valuable.

In continuation of my earlier response:     

  Best way is to select the journal among st the journals , which you have cited in references.   In my view, Journals should be from well known publishers/ society.

In my view, detailed critical comments of the reviewers are the most important aspect and it can change the entire shape of the manuscript. My experience says, papers rejected by Talanta got published in Analyst; papers rejected by Analyst got published in Analytica Chimica Acta ; papers rejected by Analytica Chimca Acta got published in Talanta; paper rejected meant for symposium got published in International- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) journal and so on........... Of course, after revision of the manuscript as per the comments of the reviewer/ sometime without revision too and beyond doubt, it gives an opportunity to the authors to think ahead. I have a tendency to discuss my papers again and again even after its publication.

In my view, any research publication, should not be for the sake of publication and it should find real applications in our day to day analysis. From my experiences, for real advancement of science, always chose a journal having high impact factors for publications because of their superior reviewing process and constructive comments for future research.

Dear Dr. D.P.S. RATHORE

Thank you very much for your utterly answer. Your opinions are highly appreciated.

Best regards,

S. M. Mohammadizadeh

Dear Dr. S. M. Mohammadizadeh, My publications on uranium  including letter to the editor/comments are interesting. I advise you to be very careful in citing references without reading the full text of the published manuscript. In fact, I tried my best and appealed to the respective editors to retract some  such unscientific publications. 

Dear Seyed Mehdi, I have asked myself the very same question.  I studied at UPM that has several journals.  One of these is Journal of Social Science and Humanities (JSSH).  It's indexed in Scopus.  Recently I published a paper in this journal. (Journals blacklisted here in my country are in the link.)

In 2013, I attended an international conference in Penang where I presented 2 papers.  I met 2 editors of journals, and I submitted papers in 2014, 2015 to these journals.  All these journals are not indexed in Thomson Reuters, but the peer review is excellent.  On RG, I now collaborate with others, and sometimes one of us will be the corresponding author.  I intend to continue with this collaboration in the future, because I like communicating research.  I agree with Prof Rathore that good peer review helps to improve my writing.

http://www.sps.utm.my/download/bahan%202014/Publishers%20not%20recognised%20by%20MOHE.pdf

Dear @ D.P.S. RATHORE , @ Roland Iosif Moraru  and @ Miranda Yeoh

Many thanks for your attention and worthwhile answers.

Best regards,

S. Mehdi. Mohammadizeh

Dear all,

Please give me a complete list of JOURNALS that they are in BLACKLIST.

I agree every comments made but you can check this 

Dear Seyed.

Thank you for inviting me to share my ideas about your question.

The truth is that I did not know how to properly choose a journal for an investigation. At my university, journals with high impact factor in JCR or SCOPUS obviously are the most valued, but as you assume the waiting list in such journals and the difficulty getting published is very high.

Long ago, in a course that I attended on this subject, the speaker said it was important to consider the "youth" of the journal and movement in its impact factor. That is, a young magazine is better (because its waiting list for review is shorter) with an impact factor climbing to an older whose impact factor begins to decrease. His justification was that no journal to choose to think about today but year or year and a half, when, if you're lucky, your paper will be published.

I hope my answer help you.

Regards!

Dear @ Montserrat Hernández-López and @ Oluwafemi Samson Balogun, 

Thank you very much for your utterly answers. Your opinions are highly appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

S. Mehdi Mohammadizadeh

Beside Impact Factor, there are too many factors but I think paid access and review time are more important than others. as you know for some journal assigning an editor take 1 year long!!! so beware of them.

hope it helps 

Dear Milad Taleb Hesami Azar,

Your answer is highly appreciated. The points of view that you stated about choosing the good publishing journal is rich and valuable (Pay access & Review time).

Regards,

S. Mehdi Mohammadizadeh

This can help

http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

Dear Maria Esteban,

Many thanks for your attention, time and prolific link.

Sincerely,

S. Mehdi Mohammadizadeh

Might it assistants you: 

https://www.elsevier.com/journals/research-policy/0048-7333/guide-for-authors

Dear Dr. Hossein Javadi, 

Thanks a lot for your respond. I believe the link that you shared, can be beneficial for me and other new researchers.

Best regards,

S. Mehdi Mohammadizadeh

Dear Dr. Mehree Iqbal,

Your answer is highly appreciated. I believe the points that you mentioned, have been prolific for me and many of new researchers in RG. Many Thanks.

Sincerely,

S. Mehdi Mohammadizadeh

The link that dear Maria Esteban mentioned is very good and I think this one also can be helpful.

Regards

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/whats-the-best-journal-for-my-paper-new-tool-can-help

Dear Arman Dahmardeh,

Thank you for your answer and useful link that you mentioned.

Dear RG members,

I heard that some of Indian Journals are in black list. Is it true?

Dear Ali Mohammadrezazadeh,

I know that there are several official and authentic Indian Journals but I can not tell you definite answer to your question.

Regards

Dear Seyed Mehdi Mohammadizadeh

See the following link:

http://journalfinder.elsevier.com/

Many thanks for sharing a prolific link dear Shahram Mahmoudi.

 Dear Seyed,

I suggest to use EndNote:

http://endnote.com/

it is easy to find suitable journals for your article.

Regards

Dear Seyed Mehdi Mohammadizadeh

you can check any journal in this website

http://www.medsciediting.com/sci/index.asp?action=search

if you can find its name in this website, it means it is a good and ISI journal.

if you can not find it here, you should doubt about it.

some indian journal said they have impact factor, but when you check it in this website they do not. it means they announce a fake impact factor.

in this website, you can also search to find proper journal for your article, just write your keyword and search, then the list of journal that have that keyword on their name will be appear, you could see the impact factor, difficulty, and the time of publication for each journal..

Best regards

Dear Dr. Fikrat Hassan, 

Many thanks for your respond and prolific link.

Regards

Dear Dr. Aida Tayebiyan , 

Thanks a lot for your attention, time and worthwhile answer.

Regards

Avoid publishing in unknown journals!

 Dear Dr. Falah H Hussein,

Thank you for your guidance.

Regards

An appropriate journal could be one in which the editors have treat with the author, for example, they have been teachers of the author, or they have studied in the same universities. Because the origin of their knowledge is common and it is possible to find synnergies, feedback and collaboration more easily. The author could be comprehended with more afinity.

Dear Dr. Mariano Ruiz Espejo,

Many thanks for your beneficial respond.

Regards

you can check online for an appropriate journal in your field and then make sure it is not on predatory list

Dear Oluwafemi Samson Balogun,

Thanks a lot for your prolific respond.

Regards

Good response Dr. Mariano Ruiz Espejo

There are several links related to list of fake and hijacked journals/Blacklist Journals in attached.

But they have updated until 2014. Now, I need to an updated list.

Is there anyone that can help me?

https://news.ksu.edu.sa/sites/default/files/u650/updated_list_of_hijacked_journals_21.pdf

http://www.iran-moshaver.ir/1393/03/09/%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA-%DA%98%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%B1-isi/#.V0m9KTV97IV Where is the latest and most complete fake and hijacked journal? - ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Where_is_the_latest_and_most_complete_fake_and_hijacked_journal [accessed Aug 17, 2016].

http://www.mehrdadjalalian.com/index.php/updates-of-hijacked-journals/13-journal-bothalia-from-south-africa-is-hijacked-by-cyber-criminals

International Journal of Innovative Research in Science,

Engineering and Technology (IJIRSET)

I need to know about the validity of the mentioned journal. Is there anyone that can help me?

http://www.ijirset.com/

Dear Seyed Mehdi Mohammadizadeh, 

The aim of scientific research is the publication of the document, confirming the scientific achievements and notifies colleagues profession. Scientific experiment, whatever the impressive results it may give, not complete as long as the results are not published.

Scientific publications - this article is not about science or scientific topic in the mass or popular science magazine. Scientific literature and scientific publications is a summary of the results of original experimental or theoretical research in original papers, as well as their synthesis and analysis in the review articles, monographs, and they are intended primarily for professionals and researchers. Articles are placed in professional journals. For modern scientific publications are characterized by the following features. Most journal articles on original research written in accordance with a specific format: introduction, methods, results and discussion (IMRAD format).

The text publications are full of links to other scientific work, so that the reader can find a job, to which reference is made  (References, citations).

The publications  used illustrations that are described in the text (tables,

charts, schematic, diagrams, graphs, line-drawings, images).

There is a detailed description (methods, theoretical calculations,

reasoning, statistical data processing), the results were received and how the author (s) came to the conclusions set out in Publication (methods, materials).

Most valuable publication in peer-reviewed journals (Peer reviewed journals). In this manuscript journal articles are published only after will be critically reviewed and approved by at least two experts (reviewers).

 The publication is always open and available to all readers without any restrictions (permanent available for public). To become qualified science as the primary, it should be properly published. Even if you make a good research paper properly written, but it is published in the "wrong" edition, it can not be considered a primary publication. It happens, and vice versa: the article even on a modest study can be "correct" if it has been properly published in the primary (right) the scientific literature.

Regards, Shafagat