Identifying Journals for Publication

1. Use a database such as Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, or a subject specific database to do a search for your research topic. From your search results, note any journals that appear frequently
2. Use a journal matching/journal finder website. These sites typically allow you to input the title and abstract for your manuscript, or sometimes keywords, then searches against a directory of journals and recommends the journals that most closely match your manuscript. These websites are sometimes affiliated with publishers who are attempting to match authors with one of their journals. 
3. Look at Journal Citation Reports or Google Scholar Metrics, to find the top ranked journals in specific fields by reviewing their "Categories" and "Subcategories" 
4. Look at the publications of other colleagues in your area of research to see where they're publishing

Use a database such as Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, or a subject specific database to do a search for your research topic. From your search results, note any journals that appear frequently.

Use one or several of the following journal matching/journal finder websites. These sites typically allow you to input the title and abstract for your manuscript, or sometimes keywords. The sites then search against a directory of journals and recommend journals that most closely match your manuscript. These websites are sometimes affiliated with publishers who are attempting to match authors with one of their journals. 

• Edanz Journal Selector (Beta) 

• Elsevier Journal Finder 

  Searches Elsevier publications only.

• Enago Open Access Journal Finder 

• IEEE Publication Recommender 

  Searches IEEE publications only.

• Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE) 

• JournalGuide 

• JSTOR 

  JSTOR Labs Text Analyzer resides within our JSTOR subscription. Click on JSTOR. Go to "Tools" in the top, right navigation options. Click on "text analyzer." 

• SPI-Hub: Scholarly Publishing Information Hub 

• Springer Journal Selector (Beta) 

  Searches journals published by Springer only.

• EndNote Journal Matcher 

  If you have an EndNote Web/online account, which is freely available, you can access the Journal Matcher.

Use the following resources to identify highly ranked journals within a specific area of study.