The Checklist for Journal Quality
While the exact research area you are interested in will determine which journals you read, the following should serve as a quick checklist for quality (caveat – different research fields sometimes have different norms and standards, so this may not be entirely conclusive for your field):
- Indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, CiteSeer, Google scholar or somewhere similar
- Has an up-to-date website that includes crucial information for authors and readers
- Clear and coherently themed around a central subject (No discordant thematic combinations)
- Has a publically visible editorial board, which consists of professors and researchers at accredited universities or research institutions
- Doesn’t attempt to solicit articles before the research is completed with the promise of publication
- Assigns Digitial Object Identifiers to each article (DOI)
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