Find the right journal to publish in
Beware: there is no miracle tool to find the right journal to publish in. The advice of your peers as well as disciplinary recognition prevail.
Do not hesitate to contact us to help you in your search.
However, some tools may provide you with avenues to explore.
- Step 1: If you have already written the title, the abstract and the references of your article, the B!SON tool will suggest you a list of open access journals that match your publication project.
- Step 2: The details of each journal (distribution licence, billing or not of APC, pre-publication deadlines, etc.) should be carefully checked directly on the journal websites for the latest updated information.
- Step 3: Before submitting your article, apply a few standard precautions and check the quality of the journal you have selected. The Think, check, submit website lists all the questions to ask yourself to avoid predatory journals. For more information, see our fact sheet on predatory publishers (in French).
Focus on a few initiatives
Episciences is a complete platform for editing and publishing scientific overlay journals covering all disciplines. All Episciences journals are Diamond Open Access journals: there are no access fees and there are no publication fees. The publication process is backed up by the open repositories.
OpenEdition is an open access publishing platform for books and journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Peer Community in (PCI) is a free recommandation process of scientific preprints based on peer reviews and a journal. Following submission by authors, the thematic PCIs evaluate preprints in their scientific fields based on rigorous peer review. After evaluation, the PCIs may recommend those preprints, to make them complete, reliable and citable articles, without the need for publication in ‘traditional’ journals. Authors who need to publish their article in a journal can publish it for free in Peer Community Journal or submit it to a PCI-friendly or other journal.