Academic research Publishing

Choosing the right journal with undisputed reputation is crucial for the research to reach its target audience. But in today’s technological world, it is difficult for any researcher to identify the right journal to publish his/her research. Since there are thousands of journals to post, the researcher concludes that doing the research was much more comfortable than finding the journal to publish it. Here are some of the resources/tools that may help.

Avoid Predatory Journals

Predatory journals—also called fraudulent, deceptive, or pseudo-journals—are publications that claim to be legitimate scholarly journals, but misrepresent their publishing practices. Some common forms of predatory publishing practices include falsely claiming to provide peer review, hiding information about Article Processing Charges (APCs), misrepresenting members of the journal’s editorial board, and other violations of copyright or scholarly ethics (more information here).


Check Beall's List, a blog by Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado Denver, tracking "potential, possible, or probable predatory" scholarly open-access publishers (http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/) and journals (http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/). For further reading, see Beall's List Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers and the page with Hijacked Journals (when a counterfeit site is created masquerading as an existing established journal in the field).


Finding a Journal

JANE - Journal/Author Name Estimator

Paste your title and abstract or do a keyword search on your topic to find appropriate journals or article reviewers. Based on the MEDLINE database. Created by BioSemantics Group at Erasmus University Medical Centre.


Manuscript Matcher

Endnote users can try Manuscript Matcher, a tool that uses the title, abstract and references of your manuscript to connect it with content in the Web of Science and thus "match" it with relevant publications.


Clarivate Analytics Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Clarivate Analytics do not publish journal citation reports in the arts and humanities, so no impact factors are available for journals in these disciplines. However inclusion of a journal in this list is widely regarded as an indication that the journal is of the highest standard.


Social Science Citation Index

Clarivate Analytics Social Science Citation Index


Open Access Journal Finder by Enago

Searches validated index from Directory of Open Access Journals to find relevant journals


JournalGuide

JournalGuide is a free tool created by a group of software developers, former researchers, and scholarly publishing veterans. The goal for JournalGuide is to bring all sources of data together in one place to give authors a simple way to choose the best journal for their research.


Springer Journal Suggester

Paste your title and text to find matching Springer/BioMed Central Journals.


Elsevier Journal Finder

Paste your title and abstract to find a matching Elsevier journal. Can filter by open access.


Taylor & Francis Journal Suggester

Paste your manuscript abstract to find the best home for your research article



Where to Publish

Getting your research read and cited benefits your individual career, but also assists Moi University in University Rankings. These rankings are based on the quality of research papers. Equally, you need to ensure your quality papers are read by the research community! Moi University’s focus is to publish quality research in journals that are widely read and cited and that is why we recommend Open Access route.

African Journals Online

African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world's largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals. AJOL is a Non-Profit Organisation that (since 1998) works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research. Millions of monthly downloads by site users from nearly every country in the world are an indication of the need and widespread use of the AJOL initiative. More than half of the repeat users are from Africa.

Directory of Open Access Journals

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. DOAJ contains almost 17,500 peer-reviewed open access journalscovering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.


Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP)

This is one of the largest open access publisher on a wide range of scientific research