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Where Should I Publish My Research? : Identify Relevant Journals

Tools to Suggest Journals for Publication

*NOTE: Some of these tools ask you to input or upload your title/abstract or portions of manuscript in order to provide a recommendation. Please do not do this if you feel uncomfortable doing so.

General Tools

Various journal finders by publisher or vendor

Broad search tools and network visualization

Open Access-Related

Using Library Search to Identify Journals

Search for your topic on the Library website via EBSCO Discovery Service.

Screenshot of library search options. This displays a search for ("machine learning" OR "neural network") AND nutrition

Once you have run the search, limit to Academic Journals and expand the Publication facet to see a list of journals that published articles on your topic. The number in parentheses after the journal title indicates the number of articles from that journal that were retrieved in your search. Once you've identified promising titles, visit the journal websites for additional information regarding their scope and editorial guidelines.

A screenshot of the facets in library search. Under "limit by source type" the box next to "Academic Journals" is checked. Under "publication" the menu is expanded to offer the names of journals that are in this set of results

Attribution

Content in this guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License and is adapted from "Identifying Appropriate Journals for Publication" by University of Alberta Health Sciences Library which is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0