Research Guides: Measuring Research Impact: Where to Publish

Author Services

Where to Publish

Cabell's Scholarly Analytics is the complete source for journal information and evaluation metrics. It include the Whitelist, a listing of 11,000 credible journals across 18 academic disciplines, and the Blacklist, 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

JournalSeek
http://journalseek.net/

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)
https://hgserver2.amc.nl/cgi-bin/miner/miner2.cgi

Political Science graduate and undergraduate student journals

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 Specialists analyze over 60 behavioral indicators to keep the community aware of the growing threats and to keep academia protected from exploitative operations." It provides the Predatory Reports, a compilation of questionable and/or predatory publications.

LIST OF STANDALONE JOURNALS Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals

LIST OF PUBLISHERS Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals

Leonhard Dobusch and Maximilian Heimstadt. (2019). Predatory publishing in management research: A call for open peer review. Management Learning 50(5): 607-619.

Student Journals

Political Science graduate and undergraduate student journals

Undergraduate Research Journals

Undergraduate Research Paper Competitions at ICPSR