2017/08/03 by Amy Forrester, Bo‐Christer Björk, Carol Tenopir
Arts and Humanities · Decision Sciences · #Academic Publishing and Open Access #Publishing and Scholarly Communication #scientometrics and bibliometrics research
paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/leap.1112
openalex publication_date 2017/08/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
The motivations for an author to choose a journal to submit to are complex and include factors relating to impact and prestige, service quality, and publication costs and policies. Authors require information about multiple characteristics of journals that may be difficult to obtain. This article compares and contrasts the new author‐oriented journal comparison tools and services that have emerged to assist researchers in this important step of the scholarly publishing process. Many of these tools combine factors to provide full web‐based manuscript submission decision tools; however, they all have limitations that reduce their usefulness.