Selecting a journal involves balancing fit, impact, quality, grant requirements, access, and cost. Beyond reviewing each journal\u2019s author guidelines, several tools can assist in your decision-making process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Resources such as Journal Citation Reports<\/a> provide Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and discipline\u2011specific rankings for journals indexed in Web of Science. SCImago<\/a> offers alternate Scopus\u2011based quartile rankings. Ulrichsweb<\/a> details publication frequency, peer\u2011review status, and indexing while helping to differentiate similar journal titles. The National Library of Medicine Catalog<\/a> is essential for verifying MEDLINE indexing for journals that appear in PubMed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WSU authors can explore current open access agreements<\/a> with publishers such as Wiley, ScienceDirect, ASM, PLoS Medicine, and Cambridge. Publish early to avoid yearly quotas. Jisc Open Policy Finder <\/a>(formerly Sherpa) helps clarify funder and publisher self-archiving rules. Select a Creative Commons license<\/a> that aligns with expectations of your publisher, funder and audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Journal finders from JANE<\/a> (hosted by Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics OHDSI), Wiley<\/a>, Elsevier<\/a>, and Taylor & Francis<\/a> can suggest suitable journals based on your title and abstract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Selecting a journal involves balancing fit, impact, quality, grant requirements, access, and cost. Beyond reviewing each journal\u2019s author guidelines, several tools can assist in your decision-making process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25158,"featured_media":34357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[26],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35604,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35600\/revisions\/35604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35600"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=35600"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=35600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Open Access and Article Processing Charge Considerations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Journal Suggestion Tools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n