Ekoe - what works for me is to access Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science and identify the category that my topic/discipline sits best within. It then gives you the ranking of the journals by Impact factor (and links to their home websites). Choose several of the journals that you think might be the 'closest fit' and then check out their sites for scope, house-style etc. I usually aim for the highest impact factor journal first and, if not accepted, work on the basis that I will get good reviewer feedback to adapt the manuscript for the for submission to the next journal on my list.

Thanks, Dear Dean Whitehead

Dear Aloys

Along with Prof. Whitehead suggestion, you can see most appropriate journals in the REFERENCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY of your own document. The reason is most of the articles which your cite in your paper are published in journals which strongly relates to your topic. So my suggestion is to carefully see the journals in your references‘ list. Most likely you will find the most relevant journal for your study.

Good Luck!

When you perform your literature review, consider the journals you cite. They probably have focus related to your manuscript topic.

But such a journal may not want to publish a paper that is very similar to a recent publication, so ask yourself both whether their overall focus includes your topic, and whether you are a bit different from what they have published in the last few issues.

elsevier journal finder is the best option

Aside, using Elsevier journal finder and other platforms such as Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science and Directorate of open access Journals. Other things may come to play in the mind of the author who wish to make a publication. For many researchers from africa, we all look for Journals who publishes for free. And in my field (Fisheries and Aquaculture) they are many. Am sure there are such Journals in other field. In my early days of publishing sorting journals by the publication fee in the "Directorate of Open Access Journal" website helped a lot. I recommend this for you too.

From the references you cited.. select several journals that published similar topics before

Dear EKOE, I fully agree with athe previous answers. But you should also consider the publication fees while choosing a journal because most of the highly ranked journals are not free.

If you already have the title and abstract for your article, you can use the following tools from Elsevier and Springer to help you pick a right journal among those that belong to the respective publisher

http://journalfinder.elsevier.com http://journalsuggester.springer.com

The output of these tools shows inter alia average article processing times and impact factors of the journals and, if I recall correctly, also publication fees and open access fees. In many journals you can publish free of charge if you do NOT make your article open access (i.e. it is available only to journal subscribers), but this should be checked for each journal separately.

Once you make a short list of potentially suitable journals, you can check whether they are covered by Scopus here

https://blog.scopus.com/posts/titles-indexed-in-scopus-check-before-you-publish

and by Web of Science here

https://mjl.clarivate.com

journal selection based on your topic , indexing and impact factor

This is my recommendation.

Elsevier, Springer, and IEEE have a journal finder where you introduce the title and abstract of your paper.

The Elsevier journal finder shows the impact factor, review speed, OpenAccess fee, and other metrics (https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/).

The Springer suggester shows the impact factor, average review speed, and acceptance rate (https://journalsuggester.springer.com).

The IEEE recommender shows the impact factor, if it has open access, average time of publication (http://publication-recommender.ieee.org/home).

There are other journals finder such as:

• Journal / Author Name Estimator (http://jane.biosemantics.org/)
• Edanz - Journal Selector (https://www.edanzediting.com/journal-selector)
• Cofactor - Journal Selector (http://cofactorscience.com/journal-selector)
• Journal Guide (https://www.journalguide.com/)

ButI prefer to search directly in Springer, Elsevier and IEEE.

If you want to know the Quartile or H-index of the journal; you can search for it at Scimago Journal & Country Rank ( https://scimagojr.com/ ).

With these tools you can search for a journal with fast indexing, good impact factor, and low fees.

My best regards,

Carlos Soto