What are the most important tips that we should consider to find suitable journal for our paper?
To find out suitable journal to publish our research paper .It depends upon the nature of your work & specialization& the data available , you can send the paper for publication.
Journals which publish research works pertaining to Medical microbiology? Am I correct Awoke?
You would be better to select an indexed journal for your publication purposes. It will help you to reach bigger audience.
And make sure that the journal you select is not a ghost journals. They publish what ever, if you pay them. It will badly affect your reputation.
Hi,
The most important thing to check when sending a paper to a journal is that the subject of your paper matches the aim and scope of the journal. Many times, when the paper covers subjects that are not included in the journal's coverage range, it is rejected even before reaching referees' evaluation.
You may use a journal finder tool such as:
http://journalfinder.elsevier.com/
https://journalsuggester.springer.com/
You may start to find the answer for this question from literature survey itself. As evey research requires literature survey, one can always gets an idea of relevant journal from which you are reading articles relevant to your research. You may go through some of them (their published articles relevant to your research area) to get a better insight eg. see level of work, writing standard, depth of study etc in their most recent publications. Check impact factor and publication time usually taken. Nowadays, journal finders are available, but becareful while using it as it is done by software, so it has its own merits and demerits. It does checking based on some kind of textual similarity of your abstract and title but not exactly on the whole manuscript. For eg. the actual important finding and reliability of the method or results is not considered by it. So, you can take best decision based on your work as well as knowledge of the particular journal.
Best wishes
Chitra
A good way to find a journal that fits the subject of your research is to review the references you have found for it. That way you can get an idea of what are the journals that may be interested in your article. Another way to search for a journal can be through the page scimagojr.com, which mentions the best journals in terms of indexation if you are also interested that your article get published in the best possible journal
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