Resource of the Week #50: Some Blog Posts on Choosing a Journal

Hello again. Recently I learned of a set of blog posts on choosing a journal to which to submit a paper.

These blog posts, which are by editor Anna Sharman, seem very informative. Therefore I’m featuring them as the Resource of the Week.

The titles of the posts are as follows:

• 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)

As you may recall, some AuthorAID workshops also include advice on choosing a journal. However, this set of posts discusses some aspects in more detail.

Items that I found of interest in these posts included the following:

• information (in part I) on “cascading peer review”, in which after a journal rejects a paper, the peer reviews can go to another journal by the same publisher
• a list (in part II) of ways that some journals publicize papers that they publish

Especially if you’ll submit papers to journals, I encourage you to look at these blog posts.

Until next time— Barbara