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Anders Wändahl anders@golonka.se Selecting a journal where to publish... do it right and avoid the pitfalls! Anders Wändahl anders@golonka.se

Why publish at all? Appointments Promotion Tenure Career Funding Postdoc Fame and glory Good for science

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(Eldoret)

(Makerere)

Indexing in databases Is the journal indexed in any major database?

http://www.austms.org.au/Rankings/AustMS_final_ranked.html

Shen C, Bjork BC. 'Predatory' open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics. BMC medicine. 2015;13:230.

https://web. archive. org/web/20170112125427/https://scholarlyoa https://web.archive.org/web/20170112125427/https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

Avoiding predatory publishers “In academic publishing, predatory open access publishing is an exploitative open-access publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals (open access or not).” Wikipedia – 2017-03-06 2018-12-05 Henrik Schmidt

Characteristics No or poor connection with Academia High acceptance rate, fast turn-around Minimal or non-existant peer review Aggressive mailing campaignes Usually not indexed in major databases = (no MSN, no Zbl, no Web of Science = no JIF) Open Access

Shen C, Bjork BC. 'Predatory' open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics. BMC medicine. 2015;13:230.

sciencepublishinggroup.com

Deception!

How to avoid them! Have you heard about this journal before? Is the publisher clearly stated? Can you contact the publisher? Is the journal´s content indexed in the major databases? Can you recognize any editorial members*? Is the cost (APC) clearly indicated? Is the publisher member of any publishing industry organization or similar?

Blacklist or Whitelist? vs.

http://thinkchecksubmit.org/

It’s all about quality!