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.