After having published more than 20 manuscripts I am still in a dilemma on selecting a right journal. Unfortunately now a days most of the journals are charging the publication fees. what is the fee for, who gains from it?
Please note that the open access system of publication has revolutionized scientific publication where a sound quality article published in a high impact journal would be equally viewed as a just born/ may be publishing articles of low quality peer review: so invariably a low quality article may have citation from another low quality/ high quality: so there is a confusion: my perspective that a journal to be judged on the editorial board and peer review process
my criteria is it should be indexed atleast in PUBMED/SCOPUS; Then choice is based on article processing charge in case i have no funds
I prefer to try the most ranked (high impact) and specialized (scope and editorial board) journal. Publication cost is something not good; so then it is better to choose free journal. Epub is also OK.
Many times after getting ready for sending a paper for publication: we face problems in selecting the journal
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