Publish or perish is a reality for today's academics. Researchers’ particularly new researchers’ are in continuous pressers to publish their paper but the question is where they will publish their work? It is seen that many open access journal are emerging exponentially and are offering various benefits including publishing research work within shortage possible time even within 3/4 days. In such circumstances what young researcher will do when many of them have lack of information about good journal?
Normally, if the journal has Impact Factor then there is no question about the quality of the journals. But it is not always true that the higher is the impact factor the higher is the quality of the journal. Besides ISI (Web of Science) indexed journals, Scopus indexed journals are also considered as good journal. So, before submitting manuscript to any journal one should need to see the indexing of the journal.
The young researcher must be very cautious in this now adays many fake journals are available. Kindly check for the originality of the journal and proceed further with publication...
Discuss the best possible journal for your work with an experienced researcher in your field. I'm sure you can quickly find a list of appropriate journals, that you then can browse, in order to decide a first option..
And - by the way - it's generally not "publish or perish" at all. Unless you are completely alone and you are a junior scientist. You should have a more senior colleague nearby; talk with her/him!
Normally, if the journal has Impact Factor then there is no question about the quality of the journals. But it is not always true that the higher is the impact factor the higher is the quality of the journal. Besides ISI (Web of Science) indexed journals, Scopus indexed journals are also considered as good journal. So, before submitting manuscript to any journal one should need to see the indexing of the journal.
Browsing titles of articles as well as abstracts can be done - and may inform you which journals appear to publish similar papers as yours more often; the editors of those journals are then clearly in favour of such material!
Monirul, inasmuch as there appears to be an attendant pressure on all researchers to publish, most reputable Universities tend to encourage academics to publish in respectable, rigorously peer reviewed journals. Early career researchers may wish to build networks with more experienced as well as colleague early careerists as part of a strategy to develop their research outputs and reputation. Interesting...
Try to publish your articles in ISI (Web of Science) indexed journals and Scopus indexed journals are also considered as a good journal
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