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An interactive table that helps researchers identify suitable journals for their publications or whether to review for them. The visually distinguishes between for-profit, not-for-profit, and university press journals.
This tool uses data from our own curated database as well as several external sources:
- DAFNEE database for Ecology and Evolution: provides comprehensive information about academia-friendly journals in the fields of Ecology and Evolution.
- DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals): provides information about open access journals, including publisher and country.
- Scimago Journal & Country Rank: Provides journal ranking data, including journal ranks and quartiles.
- OpenAPC database: Provides information about Article Processing Charges (APCs) and business models of journals.
- SU list of non-predatory journals: List of journals recommended by the conference of deans.
There are several ways to contribute to this project, either by adding new journals or editing, this requires a Google account and no coding skills.
Add new journals
Add a new journal to the database by filling out the form below. The journal will be reviewed and added to the database: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfTWQ8PaFCL_zabYwUidZZlh8GR_SZJ1rWaQfZWX3ZS98pm3g/viewform The scimago rank and quartile will be added automatically based on the journal name.
Edit existing data
Edit the database directly in suggestion mode. The changes will be reviewed and merged by the maintainers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PRXViyQlo5ZMjpCJ_XpcHfsnZEJmmdCiXjnkazMyua8/edit?resourcekey=&gid=1775942038#gid=1775942038
https://github.com/WhereToPublish/WhereToPublish.github.io/
Notes for each column:
\*\*Journal:\*\*
The name of the journal. Official journal names might differ from the name on the list.
\*Subfield:\*\*
The scientific subfield of the journal. This classification is based on the aims and scope of the journals but it is, admittedly, subjective and arbitrary to a certain extent.
\*\*Publisher:\*\*
The company or organization that publishes the journal. Note that in some cases, societies, universities or government institutions are in charge of the journal but delegate the publishing per se and archiving to an often for-profit publishing company which is the company reported under the Publisher column. In those cases, the journal will be classified as For-profit associated with a Society. See “Publisher type” and “Business model”.
\*\*Publisher type:\*\*
For-profit (a private company making profit from the journal), Non-profit (society/government/non-profit company-owned journal whose revenues serve the community) or University press (university publisher). “For-profit” and “University-press” can be additionally “Associated with a society” or “Associated with a university or government institution” to encompass more complex relationships between the publisher (for-profit or university press) and institution(s).
\*\*Business model:\*\*
We decided to classify journals according to 4 main business models regarding the origin of their revenues (authors/readers/other) and the way they charge authors for APCs (Article Processing Charges):
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Subscription: journals where the revenue entirely comes from readers’ subscription fees, but where generally no APCs are required from authors.
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Hybrid: journals where revenues come from either readers’ subscription or payment to access the journal’s articles and from authors paying for publishing and an additional fee to publish their article as open access for the readers. These journals generally leave the authors to choose if they want to pay an additional fee to make their article open access.
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OA (Open Access): encompasses both Green Open Access (preprint, postprint and self-archiving by the authors allowed for the authors to make the article openly available at their own responsibility) and Gold Open Access (the article is openly accessible to everyone on the official website of the journal in its final published version) (see also https://open-access.network/en/information/open-access-primers/green-and-gold for more details) although most cases in the database are typically Gold. Authors typically pay an extra-APC for readers to have OA access to their article.
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OA diamond: the article is openly accessible to everyone (no cost to readers) free of charge for authors Diamond OA typically obtain their revenue from government institutions, universities and other funders.
**Institution:**
The institution associated with the journal. Typically this refers to the scientific society in charge of the journal, in case it differs from the non-society Publisher or in case the journal is run by a Society which is also a publishing house. For-profit journals might or might not be associated with one or many institutions.
\*\*Institution type:\*\*
The type of institution (e.g., university, research institute).
\*\*Country:\*\*
The country where the publisher is based.
\*\*Website:\*\*
Link to the journal's website.
\*\*APC Euros:\*\*
Article Processing Charges (APCs) are fees charged to authors to make their work available as open access (see Business Model). The data is the average APCs from the last 3 years based on the OpenAPC database.
\*\*Scimago Rank:\*\*
An ordinal position where higher numbers indicate higher impact.
The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator is calculated by dividing the total weighted citations a journal receives over a three-year period by the number of citable publications it published in those years.
Please refer to https://www.scimagojr.com/ for details.
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) measures the frequency with which content published in a journal was cited in other journals during the three previous years (compared to previous two years with Journal Impact Factor).
SCImago's ranking system is rooted in the belief that citations from prestigious journals are worth more than those from less prestigious journals. SJR weights each incoming citation to a journal by the SJR of the citing journal, with a citation from a source with a high SJR counting for more than a citation from a source with a low SJR.
SCImago attempts to normalize their rankings to account for differences in citation behavior between disciplines. The scoring scale brings everything down to 1 for easy comparison. A journal with a SJR value > 1.0 has above average citation potential and a journal with a SJR value < 1.0 has below average citation potential.
Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote, Félix Moya-Anegón,
A further step forward in measuring journals’ scientific prestige: The SJR2 indicator,
Journal of Informetrics,
Volume 6, Issue 4,
2012,
Pages 674-688,
ISSN 1751-1577,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2012.07.001.
\*\*Scimago Quartile:\*\*
Ranges from Q1 (best) to Q4 (lowest) based on Scimago Journal Rank within its field (based on Scimago journal field classification).
\*\*PCI Partner:\*\*
Is the journal a partner of the Peer Community In (PCI) journals? PCI is a non-profit organization of researchers offering peer review, recommendation and publication of scientific articles in open access for free. For more info, you can check https://peercommunityin.org/.
\*\*H index:\*\*
A journal with an H-index of h has published h papers that have each been cited at least h times. In most cases, the H-index is retrieved from the scimago database.
*If you were looking for Impact Factor (IF) metrics, note that we have decided to not include it on purpose because it is a flawed metric that is often misused to classify researchers and journals. For more information, please see [https://sfdora.org\](https://sfdora.org/reports/\#reports).
**About**
Could be nice to have a page "About" where we explain a bit the goal of the page + explain where the list of journals comes from, i.e.:
DAFNEE + the SU list of non-predatory journals + manual search over the journals of the main publishers
In this way, we also advertise and acknowledge the use of these very nice databases more visibly (I personally find the current "About" not so easy to find and to read right now)
Just to explain how we filtered predatory journals + explain why some journals may still be missing