Sometimes it is tough to identify the best suitable journal to the paper. In the process, many of the times the paper is desk rejected, and we have told that this article is not appropriate for this journal.
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I think there may be several suitable journals for an article, but there may not be a best journal with high IF that will accept our article promptly. There may be some advantage of having good co author/s, who have READ THE PAPER, AND GIVEN SOME INTELLECTUAL INPUT. TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE. The journal with the high impact factors will be very selective. Let's not be over sensitive about impact factors.
My dear @Rahul, I have brought many threads with so many good answers about your question. Hope it will bring you many tips and best practices for choosing the appropriate journal.
To choose the appropiate journal it has to match with your research topic. If it is rejected once, take into consideration the reviewers comments and observations, improve yor paper, and submit to another similar journal. TO KEEP TRYING.
I can suggest you two very useful and authoritative resources, which you can use for any of your manuscripts:
1) Manuscript Matcher of Thomson Reuters - http://endnote.com/product-details/manuscript-matcher is a very elaborated free service which based on your manuscript title and abstract suggest you the journal where you should submit.
2) JournalGuide of ResearchSquare - https://www.journalguide.com/ - based on the title of your work - does the same as Manuscript Matcher.
If you wish to get several options of appropriate journales to the nature of your paper, I recommend you do a search on the website of Scimago (Scimago Journal and Country Rank): http://www.scimagojr.com/. Once located on this website enters Journal Rankings link, where you can select the journals in the area of knowledge that you are interested in choosing classifiers Subject Area Subject Category and Country. The system will display a list of all the journals grouped according to your interest. You can enter every journal that you like and go to the website of each of theses. Surely, on the website of each journal you can find detailed information about its purpose and nature of the papers they are interested in publish....Successes
I had a similar question with so many good answers about this issue. Hope it will bring you many tips and best practices for choosing the appropriate journal.
How can a new researcher find an appropriate journal to submit his/her article?Which journals are in BLACKLIST?...
Identifying the best journal for any article is quite challenging. As per my point of view, it is important to be the first judge of your own article, as we all read Q1, Q2, and many ranked journal articles it is important to understand that every ranked journal's editor-in-chief as well as reviewers' look into the uniqueness of your paper in terms of contributions (context, methodology and may more). So if you think that your research paper has uniqueness and contributes to certain extent then it is always better to choose the high tier journals. You can use http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php to know more about different tier journal.
I myself consider mainly the audience of the journal whom I want to address, but for analyzing the journals SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a good tool. It is publicly available and the SJR index accounts for the differences in publishing habits and frequency of various disciplines by normalizing for the total number of contributions. The quartile system is helpful defining categories of journals. You can also filter for disciplines or for regions. This can be useful as well.