Before publishing in a journal, learn more about it such as its impact factor, where it's indexed, and what are its copyright policies.
Resources
The following resources can be used to discover key facts about journals and publishers:
- The Journal of Cost-Effectiveness Search Database provides the price-per-article and price-per-citation for 5,000 academic journals. A Relative Cost Index is also calculated to determine if the journal is of high (green highlight), medium (yellow), or low (red) value within its field. Specific titles and publishers can be searched.
- Journal Citation Reports provides access to data that helps you evaluate and compare scholarly journals. Find High-Impact and the Most Cited Journals in your discipline.
- Sherpa provides information about a publisher's copyright policies.Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement with authors.
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory gives publisher information and information such as circulation numbers and what databases (such as PubMed) index it. Covers over 250,000 periodicals, including the roughly 23,000 peer-reviewed scholarly journals published worldwide.
- Learn more about Reshaping Scholarly Communication by exploring other areas of this site. It provides more information about issues related to copyright and publishing.
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