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.
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).
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Clarivate Analytics do not publish journal citation reports in the arts and humanities, so no impact factors are available for journals in these disciplines.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.
Clarivate Analytics Social Science Citation Index
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.
Paste your title and text to find matching Springer/BioMed Central Journals.
Paste your title and abstract to find a matching Elsevier journal. Can filter by open access.
Paste your manuscript abstract to find the best home for your research article
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.
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.
This is one of the largest open access publisher on a wide range of scientific research