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Choosing a Journal

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Learn about the journal Organization Science in this brief profile of key facts, requirements, and suggested links.
Organization Science journal: Quick facts and submission tips
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Learn about the journal Cell in this brief profile of key facts, requirements, and suggested links.
Cell journal: Quick facts and submission tips
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Just as the impact factor of a journal is one measure of the journal’s standing, prestige, or impact, the h-index is a measure of a scientist’s impact. This article…
What is the 'h-index'?
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Learn about the Academy of Management Journal in this brief profile of key facts, requirements, and suggested links. 
Academy of Management Journal: Quick facts and submission tips
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Most journals use acceptance or rejection rates to analyze whether the number of papers that they are rejecting or accepting is too high and to monitor any unusual…
Few books come this close to providing sound advice on the intricacies of the publishing game as What Editors Want: an author’s guide to scientific journal publishing
What Editors Want: advice on winning the publishing game
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There are some common criteria you should consider when choosing a journal to publish in. Once you have a publication strategy in place, choose journals that meet all of…
How to choose journals for submitting your paper
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This article delves a little deeper into the fallacies of the impact factor and points that you should consider when using it.
Why you should not use the journal impact factor to evaluate research
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All researchers have heard about the impact factor. Read to learn what you may not know about the impact factor. Other measures of journal quality are now available as…
Although the impact factor is the oldest and, arguably, the most widely used citation metric, it has lost some of its former glory. In recent years, the impact factor…