This document provides information on resources for evaluating journals and identifying appropriate journals for publication. It discusses Journal Citation Reports (JCR), SJR, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Mycite, journal suggestion tools from Springer and Elsevier, Endnote Web, and SciRev and MedSci resources for reviewing processes. Key indicators for journal evaluation include impact factor, immediacy index, eigenfactor, and SJR rank. Open access options within JCR and Scimago are also outlined.

1. Publishing Strategy

2. Journal Evaluation
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Evaluates and compares journals using citation data
drawn from the Web of Knowledge scholarly
journals. Shows most frequently cited and highest
impact journals in a given field.
SJR (SCImago Journal and Country Rank)
Portal that includes the journals and country
scientific indicators developed from the information
contained in the Scopus database. These indicators
can be used to assess and analyze scientific
domains

3. JCR
1. Go to Library Website [Resources-Subscribed Databases-
Journal Citation Reports]
2. Select your category (based on your research area)

4. JCR
1. Rank of
journals will
be displayed
according to
impact
factor
2. You may
choose to
browse by
other
indicators
3. Click on
Journal title
to browse
further

5. JCR
Details of the selected journal (citation data, indicators,
quartile etc) will help you to identify the best journal to
publish in.

6. JCR
What is Impact Factor (IF)?
The Journal Impact Factor is defined as all citations to the journal in the
current JCR year to items published in the previous two years, divided by
the total number of scholarly items (these comprise articles, reviews, and
proceedings papers) published in the journal in the previous two years.
You may consider to publish in higher Impact Factored Journal
considering the tendency to get more citations as compared to lower IF
journals.

7. JCR
What is Immediacy Index?
The Immediacy Index is the average number of times an article is cited in the
year it is published. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations to
articles published in a given year by the number of articles published in that
year.
The journal Immediacy Index indicates how quickly articles in a journal are
cited. You may choose to publish in journal with higher immediacy index to

8. JCR
What is Eigenfactor?
The Eigenfactor Score calculation is based on the number of times
articles from the journal published in the past five years have been
cited in the JCR year, but it also considers which journals have
contributed these citations so that highly cited journals will influence
the network more than lesser cited journals.
References from one article in a journal to another article from the
same journal are removed, so that Eigenfactor Scores are not
influenced by journal self-citation.

9. SJR
(SCImago Journal and
Country Rank)
1. Go to:
http://www.scimagojr.com/
2. Click ‘Country Rankings’
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10. SJR
1. Choose your subject areas OR subject categories
2. List of journals will be displayed based on SJR Rank Indicator
(average no. of citation received by documents published in 3
previous years)
3. Click on journal title to browse further

11. SJR
Details of a journal
like this will be
helpful in deciding
journal to publish in

12. Publishing in Open Access

13. DOAJ
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides
access to high quality and peer-reviewed Open Access journals
(https://doaj.org/)

14. DOAJ
1. Search for journal in the search box
2. Or you can click ‘browse subjects’ to choose your own field

15. DOAJ
Based on the list , click on journal title to see the
details

16. DOAJ
Based on the information provided, you may choose whether this
journal
is worth to be published in

17. Open Access (JCR)
1. Go to Library
Website
[Resources-
Subscribed
Databases-
Journal
Citation
Reports]
2. Select your
category
(based on
your research
area)
3. Select / tick
Open Access

18. Open Access (Scimago)
1. Choose your subject areas OR subject
categories
2. Tick ‘display only Open Access Journals
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19. Mycite
1. Go to:
http://www
.mycite.my/
2. Click ‘
MyJurnal’

20. Mycite
1. Choose
your
subject
2. Click on
journal title
to browse
details

21. Mycite

22. Mycite

23. Springer Journal
Suggester

24. Elsevier Journal Finder

25. Endnote Web

26. Endnote Web (manuscript
match)

27. Endnote Web (manuscript
match)

28. Reviewing Process -
SciRev

29. Reviewing Process -
SciRev

30. Reviewing Process -
MedSci