There is no general answer to your question and the response depends on many factors including your field of research. One simple strategy for journal selection is to choose a journal from your list of references by comparing their scopes, IF, etc.
Thanks Behrouz Ahmadi-Nedushan
My area of research is Social Science and these days lot many people are talking about publication in Scopus listed journals. Does it indicate high acceptability of Scopus listed journals as compared to Emerald?
The question is subjective. How valuable is this valuable? According to me, any publication which will help in progression of knowledge is valuable.
Dear Garima,
Your question perhaps should be "Which is more valuable publication- Scopus or ISI?" Or "Which is more valuable publication- Indexed journals but low impact or non-indexed journals with high impact?"
It is a common belief that publishing an article in an indexed journal or in an impact journal is more difficult (in terms of paper requirement, length of review process and acceptance) than that of non-indexed or non-impact journals. Many (not all) young researchers will opt first for fast-processed publications to create a statistics of publication in his resume. The others will struggle to publish in good indexed or high impact journals.
I agree with Prof. Behrouz that there is no general answer to your question. If your intention is to get good publications, I would suggest that you should go to publish your papers in high impact journals listed under SCOPUS database. This is because SCOPUS has a better system including its search engine so that your published papers can be easily searchable by other scholars and this will increase your chances to get cited. That is the ideal one. If this one is not possible to get in a short period of time, then go to low impact journals indexed by SCOPUS or other indexers. If it is not possible, then go to other good journals (refereed journals) managed by universities.
You mean Emerald and Elsevier? Because when you compare Emerald and Scopus its like you compare Apple to Rock. Emerald is publishing, and Scopus is an Indexed type like Thomson Reuters not to mention almost all Emerald journals indexed in Scopus. So maybe if you mean Elsevier then, if you get to choose these two, then you can close your eyes and pick, either option is fine. Though depends on your paper, if you have good one then as long as it's not on fake money oriented journal then it's all good especially in open access type of journal, because People will eventually find something good and it's just matter of time even if not on Thomson Reuters or Scopus
Thanks Subhan and Wellem
I do agree that there must be equal base for comparison. Yes the question must be Elsevier and Emerald or Scopus and Thomson Reuters.
Dear Madam,
my knowledge is concern Emerald is publication and scopus is relates to index.
we need to check whether the emerald is indexed in scopus or not.
So many journals are there across the world but not indexing in scopus and also for continuation.
different universities setting the different rules of pg students and phD scholars, depends upon the norms we need to go.
again it comes to science and management.
some people say IEEE is first, some may say scopus.
its all procedures what they are following.
thanks, phani.
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