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Choosing the appropriate journal for your paper is a very important step and worth your time and effort. If you submit your article to a journal that is not a good fit it will likely be sent back to you and often without any peer review.

All academic authors want to get their papers written up and published as quickly as possible and, hopefully, in the best journals possible. We also want to pay as little as possible for the privilege of seeing our work appear in a leading international journal with a high impact factor (IF).

The Science Citation Index (now the Science Citation Index Expanded, or SCIE) is one of the core databases included in the products Web of Knowledge and Web of Science, owned by Clarivate. This was formerly owned by Thomson Reuters, who were acquired by Clarivate in 2016.

Preprint servers are online archives of papers that have not yet been subjected to peer review. Most preprint servers enable researchers to upload draft versions of a manuscript prior to submitting it to a more traditional peer-reviewed journal. 

Selecting a journal to submit your newly written research paper to can seem like an overwhelming decision – but it doesn’t have to be! In this blog post, we will talk about a variety of factors that may influence your journal selection, so that you can feel more confident about your decision.

In academic publishing, ‘aiming high’ means selecting a target journal with the best possible impact factor.

A preprint is a research article draft completed prior to publication that is then publicly shared by the author(s) prior to, or after, formal journal-controlled peer-review, but before publication. Preprints are documents that are often not typeset or built into online content.

How to sort good journals from pure predators deserves a closer look.

Selecting a target journal for research work is one of the toughest initial steps of the publishing process. Our journal selection service can help.

A new survey, just published, that was performed by the Think. Check. Submit. initiative has revealed a deep level of demand from both academics and librarians for guidance about where to publish research. The survey results also reveal a strong demand and need for additional educational resources.