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Choosing a journal – how to evaluate a journal

The aim of this workshop is to help you make well-informed choices of which journals to publish in and how to avoid sending your manuscript to a predatory journal.

Time: Fri 2024-01-19 10.15 - 12.00

Location: Zoom – no registration

Language: English

Participating: Anders Wändahl, Mattias Vesterlund and Sam Boschek, KTH Library

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The aim is to give you the hard facts about a journal to support you in making a well-informed choice. Checking these facts will at the same time also eliminate the risk of sending your manuscript to one of the rotten apples in the publishing industry (predatory publishers).

Doctoral student standing in front of a shelf with journals, reading in a journal.

This workshop will introduce you to a number of resources and tools and we will discuss and learn how to evaluate a journal in terms of: 

  • topic, document type and study design 

  • coverage in the major bibliographic databases 

  • impact factors or other metrics on the journal leve 

  • open access options and possibilities for central KTH funding of the Article Publishing Charges (APCs) 

  • journal and research funders’ demands in relation to apen access and research data 

  • Peer-review, Turn-around-time and Acceptance Rate of the journal 

  • other demands or recommendations from your supervisor or KTH 

The target audience for the workshop is researchers and doctoral students and the language is English. Doctoral students and researchers at other universities are welcome to participate. Please note that you might not have access to all of the resources that we use during the workshop. 

No registration needed, just enter Zoom at the appointed time. 

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