How to Find the Right Journal to Publish your Article On

Okay, so you’ve spent countless hours working on a research paper/manuscript, you’ve tweaked it endless times, you’ve spent hours polishing it, editing, adding to it, and deleting content and you are now, finally, ready to publish it. That’s all well and good, but which journal should you submit your article to?

Simply getting an article published on a journal can be a challenge, let alone finding the right journal to publish it on. Obviously, you want your paper to be viewed by the right audience, you want it to rank well, and you want it to add helpful content, so where the heck do you publish it to meet the aforementioned criteria?

The goal is of course to have your article published in a high impact factor journal, as this will help you to obtain things such as a scholarship, recognition, and employment, but knowing where to publish your article/research paper can be tricky.

To help make life a little easier, here is a list of several potential outlets to help you to locate the right journal to publish your article.

JANE (Journal/Author Name Estimator)

Up first, we’re going to be looking at the Journal/Author Name Estimator, also known as JANE.

JANE is exclusively tailored for biomedical journals and is a great option for anybody looking to publish a research paper/article on these topics. JANE provides heaps of useful resources, search functions, a list of relevant articles ideal for citing in your paper, and a very user-friendly layout.

JANE is also a great outlet for editors as it can be utilized to locate reviewers for specific papers, making it a very useful site indeed.

Elsevier Journal Finder

Up next, we have one of the better-known journal finders on the web today – Elsevier Journal Finder.

Elsevier Journal Finder helps individuals to locate Elsevier journals based upon a whole variety of different criteria.

Perfect for inexperienced authors looking to locate the right journals for their research papers, as well as authors looking for a professional outlet in which to publish their content, this journal finding tool is a great option for anybody considering posting their articles/research papers online.

Using what is known as ‘smart-search’ technology, as well as field-of-research particular vocabularies in order to match your paper to Elsevier journals, this is most certainly worth considering when deciding on where to submit your articles to.

Jouroscope™

Finally, last, but certainly not least, we have Jouroscope™.

Jouroscope™ may be new on the scene, but it is already turning heads and being talked about for all of the right reasons.

Jouroscope™ is a journal discovery tool that would be ideal for finding journal matches for your research papers/articles. It contains heaps of features, including the ability to search for journals by quartiles, category, indexed by, country, and much, much more besides.

This journal discovery tool is extremely user-friendly, it is far more in-depth than other similar sites and tools, it’s great for checking journals, searching for journals, and interacting with journals and it’s one which we’ve been extremely impressed with.