Overview: choosing a journal
Many of the posts in this blog are about choosing a journal and the factors you might consider. Here are links to all the relevant posts relevant to this so far.
- Choosing a journal I: getting your paper published quickly
- Choosing a journal II: getting your paper noticed
- Choosing a journal III: practicalities
- Choosing a journal IV: peer review procedure
- Choosing a journal V: impact factor
- Journals that charge authors (and not for open access publication)
- Journal submission fees: why are they so rare?
- A comparison of open access publication charges (includes a spreadsheet comparing author processing charges for 209 journals)
- Journal metrics (includes a spreadsheet comparing metrics for 97 journals)
- Acceptance to publication time
- Submission to first decision time
I will keep this page updated as I add new posts. Why not bookmark it and check for changes regularly?
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