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

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

3. (Rwanda)

4. (Eldoret)

5. (Makerere)

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

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

15. https://web. archive. org/web/20170112125427/https://scholarlyoa

16. 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 –
Henrik Schmidt

17. 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

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

22. sciencepublishinggroup.com

28. Deception!

30. 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?

31. Blacklist or Whitelist?
vs.

35. It’s all about quality!