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Journal Evaluation Tools

This guide is intended to be helpful to someone trying to identify quality journals in their discipline. It covers journal rankings, acceptance and rejection rates, and links out to information on predatory journals and open access.

Guides to Journal Evaluation

Welcome

Struggling with identifying potential journals for your next article manuscript? This guide is intended to be helpful to someone trying to identify quality journals in their discipline as well as find information/warnings about journals to avoid (for a variety of reasons).

For additional information specific to a given discipline, we recommend you contact your subject librarian and consult senior faculty in your department.

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