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1. Identifying Journals for Publication Search Tools, Indexes, and Metrics

2. When To Start Journal-Searching? Earlier the better At least at the beginning of writing – Can save a lot of time by way of article size, referencing, overall focus etc. Always have a back- up list of journals

3. General and Specialized Journals *General or Wide Scope Journals may have higher visibility and get more citations But usually have low acceptance rate *Specialized (field- specific) journals may have higher acceptance rates But limited scope and themes, and visibility * - Not to be taken as a General Rule

4. General Specialized

5. Approx. Acceptance Rates - General 7% 8%

6. Approx. Acceptance Rates - Specialized 66% 64%

7. Some Terms: Who does What Publishers: Taylor&Francis (Part of Informa ), RELX (Formerly Reed Elsevier ), Wiley- Blackwell, Springer etc. Databases: Scopus (Elsevier), Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), Medline, PMC. ERIC (Education Research), JSTOR etc. Indexing: Web of Science, Scopus, PMC, DOAJ etc. Search Engines/Aggregators: PubMed, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Semantic Scholar, Connected Papers, Crossref, PubPsych, Paperity (Has Mobile App) etc. Service Providers: EBSCOhost, Proquest etc. – Not Databases or Publishers Preprint Servers: Arxiv, SSRN, PsyArXiv, WikiJournal Preprints etc. Most Indexing Services provide search facilities too

8. Short- listing Candidate Journals

9. Short- listing Candidate Journals Aim to list 5-10 candidates Can be useful for future publications too First place to look may be your reference list Look for journals that you have cited from Companion Journals can also be looked for

10. Journal Selection (Short- listing) Tools Generic Tools JANE Edanz Journal Guide Publisher Tools Elsevier Journal Finder Springer Journal Suggester SAGE Journal Recommender

11. Generic Tools

12. JANE: Journal/Author Name Estimator Title/Abstract Here Search for Journals/Authors/Articles Uses data from DOAJ, NLM

13. Journal Search Result

14. Article Search Result

15. Edanz Journal Selector

16. Results

17. Journal Guide Search for Papers/Journals/Publishers with Title/Abstract/Keywords https:// www.journalguide.com/

18. Results

19. Tools by Publishers

20. Elsevier JournalFinder

21. Springer Journal Suggester

22. Results

23. SAGE Journal Recommender Manuscript Title Keywords

24. Results

25. Citators in legal research, such as the Shepard's Citations, inspired the modern journal/article indexing systems, such as the Science Citation Index (SCI) Being Indexed somewhere is widely thought of as indicating quality and prestige of a journal

26. Reminder: Who does What Publishers: Taylor & Francis (Part of Informa ), RELX (Formerly Reed Elsevier ), Wiley- Blackwell, Springer etc. Databases: Scopus (Elsevier), Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), Medline, PMC. ERIC (Education Research), JSTOR etc. Indexing: Web of Science, Scopus, PMC, DOAJ etc. Search Engines/Aggregators: PubMed, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Semantic Scholar, Connected Papers, Crossref, PubPsych, Paperity (Has Mobile App) etc. Service Providers: EBSCOhost, Proquestetc. – Not Databases or Publishers Preprint Servers: Arxiv, SSRN, PsyArXiv, WikiJournal Preprints etc. Most Indexing Services provide search facilities too

27. Major Indexing Services Web of Science Scopus NLM – PubMed Central/PubMed/Medline Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Washington and Lee Law Journal Rankings UGC CARE*

28. Web of Science Previously Web of Knowledge Originally by Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), then a part of Thomson Reuters, and presently owned by Clarivate Analytics Database and Indexing services Has a Core Collection and regional Databases Subscription based access to databases

29. WoS Core Collection Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) >9,200 journals across 150 disciplines; 1,900 onwards Science Citation Index (SCI) Merged with SCIE in 2020 Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) >3,000 journals; 1900 onwards Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) >1,950 journals; 1975 onwards Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) >5,000 journals across fields Book Citation Index Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) >1,60,000 Conference titles

30. WoS Regional Databases Chinese Science Citation Database (in partnership with the Chinese Academy of Sciences) SciELO Citation Index (Brazil, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbeans, South Africa, and Latin America) Korea Citation Index (KCI) with South Korean National Research Foundation Russian Science Citation Index Arabic Regional Citation Index (ARCI)

31. Global Coverage: Web of Science, 2011 Source: JISC- ADAT, 2011

32. Scopus By Elsevier >36,000 titles from >11,000 publishers Includes books, conference papers, and patents. Database and Indexing Covers all Medline content Some researchers have pointed out a European bias SCImago Journal and Country rankings are made from Scopus list

33. Global Coverage: Scopus, 2011 Source: JISC- ADAT, 2011

34. WoS and Scopus Coverage Overlap Source: JISC- ADAT, 2011. No longer available in the original website

35. Medline, PubMed, and PMC All have content mostly from biomedical and life sciences journals Medline (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is compiled by National Library of Medicine (NLM) under NIH of USA. PubMed by NLM enables searching for content from Medline and other content such as books and archives >30 million abstracts and citations; 7.5 million free PubMed Central (PMC) offers free full text articles >5.2 million articles Some overlap with PubMed content

36. Directory of Open Access Journals ( DOAJ ) Indexing Community- curated list of open access journals More than 15,500 open access journals and 5 Crore articles Science, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences and Humanities

37. W&L Law Journal Rankings By Washington & Lee Law Library Released Annually 2019 rankings released in June 2020 Filtered searching available

38. Indian Citation Index Launched as a private initiative in 2009 Covered more than 1100 journals Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Social Sciences including Arts and Humanities Indexes Indian Science Citation Index (ISCI), Indian Social Science and Humanities Citation Index (ISSHCI), Indian Journals Citation Reports (IJCR), Indian Science and Technology Abstracts (ISTA) Directory of Indian Journals (DOIJ) Defunct since 2018

39. Other Sources PsycInfo by APA Google Scholar Not an indexing service; no vetting for inclusion Limited functionality in identifying quality content AGRIS Agricultural database Civil engineering database

40. Others - Law Nexis Uni by Lexis Nexis Database for Legal research Gallagher Law Library at University of Washington hosts a useful guide for selecting law journals https://guides.lib.uw.edu/law/writinglawreview/mea suring_quality

41. UGC Consortium for Academic Research and Ethics (CARE) Established by UGC in 2018 Two Groups (I and II) Group I: Journals found through UGC- CARE protocols Group II: Web of Science Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) ESCI Not Included Scopus List Modern Language Association (MLA) Usually updated every 3 months Headquartered at Savitribai Phule Pune University

42. Analysis Protocol: CARE Group I Part I: Basic information Journal title Journal broad discipline and focus subject Name of publisher Country of origin and registered address Journal language/s Publishing frequency Editor name, editorial office address, phone, email and website Current status (date of last publication) (print/ online/ both) ISSN/ eISSN Other registrations/ memberships such as RNI/ COPE/ CARE Part II: Primary Criteria Part III: Secondary Criteria Part II & III supposed to be based on “ due diligence, verification process and critical appraisal using sequential algorithmic elimination process and weightage- based metrics ” Further details not available in public domain

43. Searching Group I Journals Title/ISSN/Publisher/Subject/Language Need to Register for an account to search in CARE database

44. Scrutinizing Journals Using Metrics and Other Indicators

45. Journal Metrics Journal Impact Factor (JIF) Immediacy Index Eigenfactor Article Influence h- index CiteScore SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) Others

46. Journal Impact Factor (JIF) W initially intended to assist librarians for deciding which journals to purchase for their institution The average number of times articles from a journal, published in the past two years, have been cited in a Journal Citations Report (JCR) year Data taken from SCIE, SSCI, AHCI, CPCIs (WoS) Varies highly across disciplines Comparisons are meaningful only within disciplines – or within fields inside each discipline * W - Based on Web of Science

47. Journal Immediacy Index W Average number of times an article in a given journal is cited in the year it is published A same- year variant/equivalent of JIF

48. Eigenfactor W Based on the number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year ( similar to JIF ) but also considers which journals have contributed these citations so that highly cited journals will influence the score more than lesser cited journals – Similar to Google’s Algorithm Considers ‘prestige of the journals’ along with citation counts Comparisons across disciplines are not useful

49. Article Influence (AI) W Average influence of a journal’s articles over the first five years after publication Calculated by dividing the Eigenfactor by the number of articles published in the journal

50. Journal h- index h- index was originally an author- level metric Can be calculated using Google Scholar metrics, WoS, or Scopus Expresses a journal's number of articles ( h ) that have received at least h citations

51. CiteScore S Scopus’s equivalent of JIF Calculated every year Seeks to be a more transparent and reproducible metric * S - Based on Scopus

52. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) S Calculation based on citations during the previous three years Considers ‘prestige of journals’ along with citations Similar to Eigenfactor by WoS SCImago also ranks Institutions and Journals

53. Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) S Tries to account for field- specific differences in citation practices Comparing each journal’s citations per publication with a calculated “citation potential of its field” Based on another metric called IPP- Impact Per Publication Calculated annually

54. Some Other Metrics i 10- index Author level metric - number of publications by an author that have been cited by at least ten sources g- index The h- index for an averaged citations count Cited Half- life and Median Impact Factor Based on JIF Citation Performance Per Paper Online (C3PO) Z- influence Measures the number of papers in a journal that have never been cited

55. Criteria for Finalizing a Journal

56. No need to look for all these metrics together Decide on the ones that are important for your field and work Also, never use these metrics as The Only Criterion for selection While Deciding on a Journal

57. Factors Other Than Metrics

58. A Checklist for Journal Selection Aim & Scope Do they align to your study/manuscript? Desk rejections happen mostly here Open Access policy Type of Submissions Accepted Article Size/Word Count/Table/Figure Count What kind of articles are being published recently? Acceptance/Rejection rates Article Processing Charges Turnaround Time and Frequency Do they have Online First Policy? Editorial Board

59. Does The Journal/Publisher Offer Transfer Services? A transfer service can save a lot of time and effort

60. Pitfalls to Look Out For ‘Predatory Open Access’ Journals Hijacked/Cloned Journals

61. Pitfalls to Look Out For Predatory Journals Journals with difficult- to- believe Aim & Scope Emails you with unusual respect and care “Dear Esteemed Author/Dr” And usually has many typos and errors A flashy website which targets authors, not readers A promise to publish fast, at ‘affordable rates’ A warning about fast- approaching deadline Over-emphasizes having an ISSN Claims to conduct peer review, yet promises to publish within days

62. Pitfalls to Look Out For Predatory Journals Inflated and/or misleading metrics and indexing information, such as “indexed in Google Scholar” No clear author instructions Journal name/email/website that resembles a well- known journal Declares to be ‘Open Access’ but does not feature in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) etc.

63. While Good Journals are Made for Readers, and Provide Pertinent Information…

64. Some Predatory Journals can be easily identified Many fraudulent shopping websites do a better job than this

65. Some Questionable Journals Can Look Really Legitimate

66. An almost Professional looking website Have published ‘Call For Papers’ in respectable law portals ‘Submit Online’ button asks you to email the manuscript (and gives different email Ids in different pages) Several language errors on the website More than one editors have published articles in the many issues Shoddy editorial process; No formatting; Even Capitalization of article titles are not uniform Publishing Company has a non- existent website. Facebook page suggests they run other journals too. Publisher’s postal address belongs to a one- person company, which is under process of Striking Off. Meanwhile the Director now runs a Fruit Juice and Beverages Company .

67. Refer sources such as the Beall’s list ( https://beallslist.net/ ) , https://predatoryjournals.com/ , Cabells' Predatory Reports (proprietary) etc. to identify potential predatory journals/publishers Predatory publishing itself is a grey area – Some features that we ascribed to predatory publishers may apply to some genuine ones too Use discretion while deciding; check multiple sources Be Extra Careful

68. Cloned/Hijacked Journals Hijacking the name/credentials/website of a legitimate publication Using fraudulent websites Taking over expired domains Creating websites for print- only journals UGC CARE website lists many Cloned Journals

69. Exact- Looking Names Misleading/Similar Using English Translation of a French Journal Name The Art of Hijacking/Cloning

70. The Damage

71. Some Useful Places ResearchGate can be a good place for discussions, including on journals/publishing https://academia.stackexchange.com is another place for helpful discussions On Facebook*, check out the group Reviewer 2 Must Be Stopped! A number of YouTube channels also exist – They may not be very popular, for obvious reasons

72. A Recap Shortlist 5- 10 journals, just in case… Use indexing information for selection Do not limit the criteria to metrics alone Beware of Predatory and Hijacked Journals Engage with the Research Community

73. Some additional resources Read about movements such as Plan S and cOAlition S Watch the lecture “ Science Publishing : Greed , Vanity And The Decline Of Scholarship “ by Prof . P . Balaram ( Former Director, IISc) http://tiny.cc/balaram Follow the Elsevier Ltd and Ors. v. Alexandra Elbakyan and Ors . aka the “ Sci- Hub Case” in Delhi High Court: CS(COMM) 572/2020 Malayalam Podcast discussion on Knowledge Freedom and Sci- Hub case: https://luca.co.in/podcast- scihub- case-and-open-access/ An article in Malayalam: https://luca.co.in/sci- hub-case/

74. References Anderson, R. (2019). Citation Contamination: Citations to Predatory Journals in the Mainstream Scientific Literature [University of Utah]. https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=1476212 Delgado-López- Cózar, E., & Cabezas- Clavijo, Á. (2013). Ranking journals: Could Google Scholar Metrics be an alternative to Journal Citation Reports and Scimago Journal Rank? Learned Publishing, 26(2), 101–114. https://doi.org/10.1087/20130206 Frandsen, T. F. (2017). Are predatory journals undermining the credibility of science? A bibliometric analysis of citers. Scientometrics, 113(3), 1513– 1528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2520- x Herbert, R. (2019). Accept me, accept me not: What do journal acceptance rates really mean? ICSR Perspectives. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/scholcom/147 How are SCIE-Indexed Journals Different From SCI- Indexed Journals? (2020, September 28). Enago Academy. https://www.enago.com/academy/science- citation- index- merges- into- science- citation- index-expanded/

75. References Journal metrics overview. (2020, December 8). Science | AAAS. https://www.sciencemag.org/journal- metrics Kiesslich, T., Beyreis, M., Zimmermann, G., & Traweger, A. (2021). Citation inequality and the Journal Impact Factor: Median, mean, (does it) matter? Scientometrics, 126(2), 1249–1269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03812- y Okagbue, H. I., Teixeira da Silva, J. A., & Opanuga, A. A. (2020). Disparities in document indexation in two databases (Scopus and Web of Science) among six subject domains, and the impact on journal- based metrics. Scientometrics, 125(3), 2821–2825. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03704- 1 Pendlebury, D. A. (2009). The use and misuse of journal metrics and other citation indicators. Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis, 57, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00005-009-0008- y