Many new journal write in their website impact factor (very high). How to make sure its acceptiblity in scientific society.
A new journal can't have IF. If you want to check whether a journal has IF or not just go to: bioxbio.com/if. Then search by ISSN number of the journal.
Note: IF is not a litmus test to evaluate the quality of a journal.
A new journal can't have IF. If you want to check whether a journal has IF or not just go to: bioxbio.com/if. Then search by ISSN number of the journal.
Note: IF is not a litmus test to evaluate the quality of a journal.
As an editor-in-chief of a journal, and editorial board member of many journals and a review editor over 20 journals, I would say the following:
a. who is the publisher of the journal? (when you tell the name, the people have to recognize it right away. Not a good sign, if you have to explain to the people who they are, where they are located, and how big or reputed they are!)
b. who is the editor-in-chief (when you tell the name, the people have to spontaneously recognize the name - meaning someone with good academic standing)
c. Who is in the editorial board - their affiliation and reputation and impact in the field
d. how frequently they publish - it is published quarterly or bimonthly or monthly. This relates to the number of submission they expect
e. rate of acceptance in %
f. how quickly they publish online once accepted.
g. Where they are listed (e.g. pubmed).
h. how long they have been in the business, in print, or open access journal
i. analyze if the editorial board members submit their own work or not or find out where they publish!
j. if they are in the business for long time, what is their journal impact factor?
k. find out how many people cite the articles that are published by this journal
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In general, we know in our respective fields , which are the popular and better read journal's. Like we know RG is very popular
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