Choosing a Journal

You can also use journal selection tools to find a list of journals. These tools can be very helpful in matching you with the right journals for your research topic. Journal selection tools will likely require you to have a title, abstract, keywords, and an idea of the subject areas for your topic. These tools often use a variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to mine the text you enter for mentions of key concepts and then matches those concepts to content in journals. Some of the companies or organizations who create these tools may store the text you enter and monitor what results you click on. Typically, this information is used to improve the accuracy of the tool; typically, it is not shared and none of the data you enter is directly identifying. That said, always be sure to read the FAQ section to learn more about the tool before sharing it.