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Selection of a journal for

the manuscript

Kıymet Kübra YURT, PhD Student

Department of Histology and Embryology

Medical School

Ondokuz Mayıs University

Samsun, Turkey

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Contents• Expectations

• Determining Potential Candidate Journals

• Publishing Goals

• Properties of the journal

• Determine your journal strategy

• Golden rules

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Key Points Summary

• Selecting the best target journal

• The most important factors

• Journals with a broad audience and

high impact factor

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Selecting the best target journal

Publishing in the right journal

Fast publication

Why selecting the best target journal important for publishing?

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Expectations• Sharing and dissemination of information

• Achieve an academic carrier

• Publication in a journal with high impact factor (IF)

• Having large number of publications

• Increasing the number of citations

• Having a high h index

• Popularity

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Properties of manuscript

Quality of studyType

Clinical researchExperimental studyCase reportLetter to the editorChaptersBooks

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Determining Potential Candidate Journals

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• Does the journal currently

publish papers on subjects

such as yours?

• The most common yet

avoidable reason for journal

rejection is mismatch between

the manuscript and the

journal aims and scope.

TIPRead through the journal’s aims and scope and then go through the titles and abstracts of papers in recently published issues of the journal. This will help you narrow down the topics the journal is interested in.

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Journal Finder

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Selecting a Target Journal Based on Your

Publishing Goals

Get Published Quickly

Highest Possible Impact Factor

Largest Possible Audience

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1. Goal: Get Published Quickly

• Pre-submission inquiries - “Cover letter”

• Average time to complete peer review

• Cascading peer review

• Typical speed of publication

• Online pre-publication

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2.Goal: Highest Possible Impact Factor

• Finding journal impact factors

• Balancing impact factor with audience

considerations

• Journals with similar impact factors

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3. Goal: Largest Possible Audience

• Indexing

• Readership and circulation statistics

• Open access

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Read many times the guide for authors of the

journal

Adhere to type of article, page format, figures

Be aware of word/figure/table limits

Use the suitable reference and citation styles

according to the journal's

Guide for authors

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Properties of the journal

• Owner of the journalo Society journals are more prestigious journalso Have the largest circulation

• Editor of the journalo Editors' choices may influence the editorial policy

• Peer reviewed journal

• Rejection rate of the journal

• Cost of publicationo Cost of color printing

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Properties of the journal

• Languageo National languageo English

• The frequency of publicationo Weekly, monthly, bi-monthly

• Continuityo Be cautious about new journals; will they survive?

• Accessibilityo Print versiono Electronico Free of charge

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The time to publication

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How to create a publication

schedule and why

The time taken from submission to acceptance for a

publication in a journal

A few months to 3-4 years.

Why so long?

Because manuscripts typically get rejected rather

than accepted by the first.

It is a common for a paper to be rejected up to 3 or 4

times before accepted by a journal.

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Determine your journal strategy You should create a list of at

least 5 journals to submit your

manuscript.

The paper will not get

accepted by the first journal.

Consider various strategies

while determining this list of

journals.

Neurosc 3.327

Int J Dev

Neuros 2.918

Brain Res 2.828

Neurosci Let 2.055

Int J Neuosci. 1.528

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Determine your journal strategy

Try your luck with 3 prestigious journals

before lowering the target for the last 2

journals.

Like to publish in a prestigious journal but

cannot afford to risk waiting a year or two

years to publish.

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High Impact Factor

Indexing

Accessibility

My priorities:

• Journal with high impact factor

• Indexed in PubMed and/or SCI

• Available online and free

Choosing the wrong journal = waste of time

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• Read more articles

• Write many articles

• Share the manuscript with your colleagues for critical

review before submission

• Do not settle in your article rejected

• Obey the guidelines

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Having a manuscript accepted for publication is quite an achievement.

Often you (and your co-authors) will have completed several years of experimentation and data analysis to complete your story.

You recognize everyone that participated in the research with congratulations and even a small celebration!

Finally…

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e-mail: [email protected]://www.stereoloji.org

Thank you very much..

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