Features of an Appropriate Journal for Your Academic Paper

Students and researchers in the final stage of the research process should publish their results, usually by selecting a suitable journal and publishing the paper. It has been discovered many times that a strong and good article has been published in a weak and inappropriate journal. This article will give you some tips on choosing an appropriate journal to publish the article.

Suitable Journal Criteria are:

1. Journal scope: Each journal is active in a particular field of study, for example, psychology or medicine. You must review the scope of the journal on its site and submit your article if your article is related to the topics of the journal. Of course, one important point is that the more specialized the journal is, the more difficult it is to accept the article. For example, a journal that works in the area of Alzheimer's disease uses the best researchers of this area as reviewers and your article is being reviewed by them. But a journal in the medical field probably uses reviewers who are not sufficiently specialized in your area and therefore will not be very strict.

2. Indexing the Journal: Make sure that the journal is indexed in the list of ISI (Thomson Reuters master journal list). You can also publish your article in Scopus or PubMed journals. It is important that you first determine your criteria for where the journal should be indexed.

3. Impact factor: If you want to publish your article in ISI journals, what should be the journal's impact factor? If your article is strong, use journals with high impact factor and otherwise choose journals without impact factor or low impact factor.

4. The number of issues publishes per year: Some journals are published 1 or 2 times a year, while others are 4 times or 6 times, and sometimes even 12 times or more. The more journal in the year will publish more numbers per year, the more likely they will be to accept and the time to review your article will be less.

5- Rate of rejection of articles: Each journal has a certain rate of rejection. For example, some journals reject 90% of the submitted articles, while others reject 30%. The lower the rate of rejection of articles, the more likely it is to accept your article in those journals.

6. Members of the journal reviewers: journals that use the famous jury will most likely focus on your scientific aspect and not on other aspects. In addition, even if your article is rejected, you will learn many things from this panel of judges. Do not forget that even in ISI journal familiarity with the jury and the order of professors play a role in accepting the paper.

7- clarity of review process: Some journal will inform you according to a regular timetable for reviewing and accepting articles. But some journal does not have a specific order, and sometimes your article will be in the hands of reviewers for months and it will waste your time.

The final result in selecting the appropriate Journal

Considering the above, as well as paying attention to other issues related to the quality of the Journal, you can select an appropriate Journal to publish your article. Do not forget that your scientific work, which worked for months on it, will publish at this stage, so do not rush in the choice of the Journal.