Community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Use OAJF (Open Access Journal Finder) to locate journals in the DOAJ that are relevant to your research.
Check to see if the journal publisher is a member of OASPA. "Approved members have been through a rigorous application review process and adhere to OASPA's Code of Conduct."
Journal ranking used by the Web of Science and available from the Journal Citation Reports..
A journal impact factor is essentially the average number of times an article in a particular journal is cited over the previous 2 years.
Impact factors are only computed for science and social science journals indexed in Web of Science Core.
Journal ranking used by the Scopus database.
CiteScore is essentially the average number of times an article in a particular journal is cited over the previous 3 years.
Check to see if the journal adheres to the principles and best practices established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)
