These days, there are so many international journals which are available online and printed form. Some journals publish articles free of cost whereas others ask for the publication fee. I don't know whether or not these so called 'international journals' are acceptable everywhere. Could anybody please help me in knowing the criteria of well-reputed international journals? I am talking about social sciences journals.
you can opt for checking their Impact Factor, or if the journals are new (it takes time to get an IF ) you can check the indexing or the reputation of the authors of the articles published in them.
You can refer to their editorial board, Authors inside the journal & their affiliation like Sage, Elsevier their indexing like J gate, EBSCO, etc.
Which institute they belongs to.
We can not judge the journals on the basis of cost of publication.
Here is a paper about selection of journals for submitting the paper. Although it is focused on biomedicine but the criteria mentioned in it are applied for all journals
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3648921/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3648921/
You could use this link to find about predatory journals:
https://predatoryjournals.com/about/
Also, the following is very useful
http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=1706&area=1700&type=j&order=sjr&ord=asc
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