Scholarly Publishing and Research Impact: Mid to Late Career Researcher Edition: Discovering & Comparing Journals

• Journals in a variety of fields (especially Business, Computer Science, Education, Nursing & Health Administration, Psychology & Psychiatry, and Math & Sciences).
• Who published a journal and how to contact them.
• Requirements for manuscript length, submission, and more.
• Citation-based metrics for the journal.
• Acceptance rate, review process, length of time to review and publish, and difficulty of acceptance.
• Journal's aims and scope to guage whether its goals fit with your own.

Explanation of publishing models: Cabell's includes indications of publishing models, but the terminology may not immediately be familiar. In general, 

• Traditional indicates a non-free (pay for access) publishing model.
• Green indicates a non-free publishing model, but which also allow authors to place their articles in open-access repositories.
• Hybrid indicates a non-free publishing model which allow authors to pay a fee to make a specific article freely available.  
• Gold indicates an entirely free, open-access publishing model. 

This video (4:52) from the University of Houston Libraries covers the basics of searching and navigating the Cabell's whitelist.

Please note: the video's statement about the blacklist not being available applies to UH, but the blacklist component of Cabell's **IS** available at SHSU.

This video (3:49) from the University of Massachusetts Libraries provides a good overview of searching for journals and impact data / metrics in Cabell's. 

What It Is: A tool to review the reviewing; peers' comments on the speed, efficiency, and helpfulness of a journal's review process. This type of insight into a journal can be helpful in comparing and selecting a journal for submission.

Weakness: Need for data on more journals. Consider submitting a review.

• Journals relating to literature, language, linguistics, culture, and folklore.
• Who publishes a journal and how to contact them.
• How frequently a journal is published and whether it is peer-reviewed.
• For some journals: circulation numbers and acceptance rates.

• Journals, magazines, and trade publications in most subject areas.
• Who publishes a journal and how to contact them.
• How frequently a journal is published and whether it is peer-reviewed.
• Whether a journal is print or online, free or paid, and for what sort of an audience it is written.

Basic Search: search for specific journal title or keyword.

Advanced Search: Search by additional details, such as "Active" (meaning a journal is currently being published), Journal or Magazine, Academic/Scholarly or Trade audience, and Language.

Click "More Limiters" to display options for an even more complex search, including a "Refereed/Peer-Reviewed" option, subject areas, countries of publication, etc. 

For more information about Open Access publishing, see the "Open-Access Publishing" page of this guide.

• Search for journals published in a category or find details on a specific journal. 
• Details often include: Aim & Scope, Speed, Cost, and Open Access Policy.
• May include journal's Impact Factor (if applicable) or SNIP score.
• "Verified" label seeks to identify legitimate scholarly publications by indicating that a journal is "confirmed to be included in at least one high-value index or vetted by more than one subject specialized index."

This video (26:48) from Clarivate Analytics demonstrates the integrated use of Web of Science and JCR to inform manuscript submissions descisions.