Hello,
I always use search engines to find the best journal for my papers. They are so good because they provide lots of information about potential journals, such as their indices, impact factors, acceptance rates, review and publication speed etc. I know a couple of journal search engines. The journal search engines I know and use are as follows:
Thomson Reuters: http://myendnoteweb.com/ (Endnote Web Match)
Elsevier Journal Finder: https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/
Springer Journal Suggester: https://journalsuggester.springer.com/
American Journal Experts Journal Guide: https://www.journalguide.com/
I wonder if you know and use any others that could be of additional help. Thanks.
you can find better journals through "journal finders" for your articles matching. each article has a unique property which cannot match with every journals, that is why we need to find best journals for our articles by following the journal finder mechanisms.
journal finders are:
springer journal finder
Elsevier journal finder
wiley journal finder
Nature journal finder
etc
You can check this search engine of scientific journals : https://journal-if.com/
I like to use the journal metrics function of Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.de/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=de
They use the H5-Index which I really like since it is not so much affected by outliers (like 1 paper with 2000 citations) and reflects the recent performance of the journal.
Important note: You can use more complex queries to find journals by using "AND" , "OR" or exclusion by putting a minus sign in front of it. You can use brackets to make the search logic right:
(composite OR composites OR fracture OR fatigue OR failure) -health -heart -cardiac
You might want to set up one search string that has all the interesting fields and use it once in a while to see how they develop.
Dear Philipp Weißgraeber ,
have you found further indications that using GoogleScholar might be used to ".....manipulate rankings of scientific articles and promote what we call ‘academic search engine spam’. .... " (cf:
>Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience Against it< by Joeran Beel and Bela Gipp, in: Journal of Electronic Publishing, Volume 13, Issue 3, December 2010 - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.305 [ https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0013.305?view=text;rgn=main ]
Wolfgang H. Muss It appears possible and it might be used. But in my field I have never encountered such things, e.g., when looking at the detailed list of citing papers. Of course, google scholar also finds citation, that would not count in other citation databases, such as citation from bachelor or master theses or presentations uploaded to the web. So as always, we must always take the results with a grain of salt.
Dear Philipp Weißgraeber , thank you for your statement, best regards, Wolfgang
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