Research Guides: Resources to Support Faculty Scholarship: Where to Publish?

Where to Publish?

All Disciplines
Medicine

The following are additional resources for you to search for suitable venues for your publishing needs.

Cabell's Scholarly Analytics is the Libraries' subscription for journal information and evaluation metrics. It includes Journalytics, a listing of 11,000 credible journals across 18 academic disciplines, and Predatory Reports, a compilation of questionable and/or predatory publications.

JANE - Journal/Author Name Estimator Jane (Journal/Author Name Estimator) is a freely available web-based application that, on the basis of a sample text (e.g. the title and abstract of a manuscript), can suggest journals and experts who have published similar articles. FAQ

Journal Seek is a large database of freely available journal information available on the internet.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory The Directory shows whether a journal is "refereed" and where it is indexed.

PubMed PubReMiner (only works in PubMed, but can identify experts, research interests, and journals to publish in)

Where Not to Publish?

These lists do not necessarily represent the opinion of CMU librarians; they are merely information that may be useful to authors looking for a journal to publish in.

Cabell's Predatory Reports A list of journals under review for Predatory Reports
- Criteria of Predatory Reports Violations
- An article about lists of predatory publishers
- A Review of the Predatory Reports
- Beyond Beall’s List: Better understanding predatory publishers
- Leonhard Dobusch and Maximilian Heimstadt. (2019). Predatory publishing in management research: A call for open peer review. Management Learning 50(5): 607-619.

LIST OF PUBLISHERS Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals
Understanding Predatory Publishers
- Identifying a predator