Getting a research paper published can be a challenge. It's even more challenging when considering the risk of rejection that comes from submitting a paper to a journal that's not the right fit.
For inexperienced authors, this is a particular pain point, leading to rejections, adding months to publication and slowing career progress. Nearly a third of visitors to Elsevier's Authors' Home are trying to decide which journal they should submit their paper to.
Meanwhile, editors must sift through many out-of-scope papers when authors choose journals that are a poor match.
Journal Finder, in beta, was developed by Elsevier in response to feedback from authors
The Journal Finder tool uses Scopus and the Elsevier Fingerprinting Engineto locate Elsevier journals that most closely match an author's list of keywords and/or abstracts. An Elsevier journal will be recommended if it has published articles which have a high similarity with the new article. A list of potential journals will be created for authors and the tool will allow filtering based on author's preferred criteria (such as Impact Factor, open-access options, review time, acceptance rate, publication times and frequency).
The final selected journal links directly to the journal's homepage and the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) page. The tool makes recommendations from the 2,500+ journals published by Elsevier.
The Journal Finder tool
-Helps inexperienced authors to select the correct journals for their papers
-Helps authors working in multidisciplinary fields identify possible journals
-Highlights journals that offer open-access options
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