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Getting published
Plan your publication strategy
A strategic approach to selecting a journal in which to publish will increase the likelihood that your article is accepted. Target the journals that you read! Assess whether the journal is a suitable place for your paper by considering:
- Peer review: is the journal peer reviewed? Check Ulrichsweb.
- Prestige: is it well regarded in your field of research?
- Relevance: does your research fit in with the scope and aims of the journal?
- Readership: is it available in print and online and is it indexed in major databases?
Make your research available open access
Open access means that your research is freely accessible to anyone via the Internet. Publications made available through open access can be more frequently cited and have greater impact than research published only through traditional scholarly media.
- e-publications@UNE records will be indexed by Google and Google Scholar, and harvested by the National Library of Australia and other indexing services.
- Open Access: What's in it for you? Warwick University Research Exchange guide to open access publishing.
What is journal impact?
Journal impact factors are measures produced using citation data aimed to gauge the impact or importance of journals.
- Journal Citation Reports (JCR) provides quick access to the impact factors of thousands of academic journals. JCR is available via ISI Web of Knowledge (click the Additional Resources tab). A range of journal impact data is presented including the longstanding ISI 'Impact Factor', and the Eigenfactor Score.
- Eigenfactor Project is a non-commercial academic research project sponsored by the University of Washington which also produces measures of journal impact, based on data retrieved from Journal Citation Reports.
- The Scopus Journal Analyzer is available via Scopus (click the Analytics button). This tool presents the SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) as well as other journal metrics such as number of documents and number of citations. Up to 10 journals may be selected and their relative metrics viewed in graph form. View the tutorial.
- The SJR is a metric produced by SCImago, a research group from the University of Granada, Spain, based on data retrieved from Scopus.
- Ulrichsweb is a directory that provides detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on journals. Useful to find out in which database a journal is indexed to determine coverage.
Guides to help you get published
- Journal Publishing 101: a Warwick University (UK) guide to where and how to start publishing.
- Writing for publication: a Monash University guide covering what to publish and where, shaping an article for publication, the review process, and revising and resubmitting.