Dear Parmveer,

I would suggest:

• The relevance of your prospective submission to the scope of the journal and its potential interest to its readers
• The scale of your study
• The length of your prospective submission compared with the journal's guidelines for authors
• The quality of the journal
• Your career stage
• Your social/geographical relationship with the journal

Dear Peter Samules,

Thank You for throwing light on various important factors.

For selecting a journal for publication of an article :

1)the journal scope of publication match with your article

2)the journal quality and the IF (Impact Factor)

3)data bases that indexing the Journal ( more and famous indexing = article become seen more )

1. Read the instructions to authors to discover detailed guidance about the scope and topics covered by the journal.

2. Check the table of contents of recent issues. You want to see that they have published article similar to yours, but not TOO similar very recently. For example, a journal may not want to publish a meta-analysis article two issues in a row, so the editors might slow down the process for the second one, or reject it directly.

3. Research the journal to make sure it is not a predatory journal. Then check its other citation indexes and compare then to any guidance your school gives for promotion and tenure.