Choosing a Journal to Publish Your Research

There are a number of factors that researchers may consider when choosing a journal to publish their research.

Ideally a journal would be:

• High quality
• Widely consulted
• Rigorously peer-reviewed
• Well-edited
• Highly regarded in your field

But most importantly, you need to find a journal that will actually publish your work.

This guide will discuss important questions to consider when choosing a journal and offer some useful tools for answering those questions and finding a journal that meets your personal criteria.

Open access is a way of publishing that makes the content accessible without charge to the end-user. There are a range of economic models to support this, but typically some form of article processing charge or APC is paid at publication to support the infrastructure. and it can be a tremendous cost-saving for institutions and researchers. Open access publishing is increasingly being required by funding sources like the federal government or by institutional principles.