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How to Write a Review Article
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Determining Where to Publish
Determining your publishing criteria:
- What is the nature of what you want to publish?
- Where are you in the process?
- Where do you want to publish?
- Whom do you want to read your work?
- What is your timeline?
- Why are you publishing?
- Do you have funding requirements and/or funds?
- What do you want to do with your work once it is published?
Source: "Determining your publishing criteria." Penn Libraries.
Resources
Journal Directories:
- Directory of Open Access JournalsUse DOAJ to search or browse high-quality, peer-reviewed open access journal titles in all subjects and languages.
Journal Suggesters:
- IEEE Publication RecommenderFind the best match for your scholarly article.
- Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE)Just enter the title and/or abstract of the paper in the box, and click on 'Find journals', 'Find authors' or 'Find Articles'. Jane will then compare your document to millions of documents in PubMed to find the best matching journals, authors or articles.
- JournalFinder by ElsevierEnter title and abstract of your paper to easily find journals that could be best suited for publishing. JournalFinder uses smart search technology and field-of-research specific vocabularies to match your paper to scientific journals.
- Springer Journal SuggesterJournal matching technology finds relevant journals based on your manuscript details.
Measuring Journal Impact:
- Metrics by Google ScholarRanked list of journals by h5-index. h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. It is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2014-2018 have at least h citations each.
- Scopus Journal AnalyzerScopus uses CiteScore metrics for journals and serials.