1- Aims and scope: be sure that the journal is publishing research similar to that of your manuscript
2- Readership: be sure that the target audience you are trying to reach make up part of the readership of the journal
3- Indexing: to increase the visibility of your article online, be sure that the journal is indexed in the online databases that your target audience will use to find articles
4- Open access: to increase the accessibility of your article, consider publishing in an open access journal. This will ensure that your target audience will have access to your article worldwide
5- Publishing frequency: if you want to publish your findings quickly, you should choose a journal with a high publication frequency (e.g., weekly rather than quarterly)
6- Impact factor: journals with higher impact factors often have more visibility in the field, which can then increase your article’s visibility as well. Further, funding agencies and university committees often use the impact factor of the journals you publish in as a measure of your success as a researcher in your field. So if you can publish in a higher impact factor journal, it may be more advantageous.
Suitability for the topic of your paper, indexing, impact factor, holding period until the reviewer opinions come, open access option, publishing frequency, easy accessibility, scientific recognition,...etc.
Related to research work, the author must check the aim and scope of the journal..Then the some newness must present in the paper..Especially elaborate discussions are required in results and discussions section complied with previous research studies...
In addition to the above, your article should match the scope of the journal and you should be able to sustain the reason being why your article should be published in that journal (suitability of your article to the journal), Scientific content of your manuscript, flow to the readers, avoiding irrelavant content, tables and figures from the flow of the manuscript....these things matters alot.
It depends on the nature and your research area..you can find the nearest journal to your work from journal finder according to the abstract of your paper
May be the fast path of publication besides the high impact factor. As the last consideration with a slow path of publication is considered as a drawback on the journal and the publishing house.
I consider the impact factor, journal's reputation and finally the journal publishing purely in my field of study or the particular study am submitting at the time.
Very interesting discussion. I support many answers.
I am looking for communication with the editor. The online system is not lively and it is not always possible to understand what the journal requires from the author. In addition, I was faced with the fact that the system may be not stable. If there is an opportunity to communicate with the editor via email, then I will continue to work with this journal.
If you wait for 1 or 1.5 years of publication of the article, then during this time the article may lose its relevance. In the modern world everything changes very quickly.
Consideration should be given to the overall theme of the article and the journal in which the article is to be published with. Thereafter, the impact of previously published articles in the journal and the journal's reputation in terms of their peer-review system.
I usually check for journals that discuss the topics my publication covers. This helps that scientists in the appropriate field most likely will get easy access to the paper. Another consideration is also the reputation of the journal, which usually has a broader readership.