LibGuides at Priddy Library: Systematic Reviews: Publishing your Systematic Review

Journal Listings

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) DOAJ contains more than 10000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities. DOAJ is co-author to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (Principles), a list of criteria used for listing of journals and DOAJ members are expected to follow these principles as a condition of membership.
Embase Journal List Embase provides 32 million+ records from almost 8,300 currently published journals and includes six million+ records and 2,900+ journals that are not covered by MEDLINE
Journals that Follow the ICMJE Recommendations Consult this list for journals whose editors or publishers have contacted the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) to request listing as a journal that follows the ICMJE's Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.
NLM Catalog: Journals Currently Indexed by MEDLINE/PubMed This resource is a list of journals currently indexed in MEDLINE. Citations to the journals are in PubMed.
Scopus Journal List Check the Scopus list of indexed journals including those no longer indexed due due to publication concerns. Scroll down the page for the lists.
Web of Science Master Journal List The Master Journal List includes all journal titles covered in Web of Science.

Publishing your Systematic Review

Finding the best journal to publish your work

Identifying the best journal to submit your research to can be a difficult process. To help you make the choice of where to submit, Think. Check. Submit. has a produced a video that includes checklist for authors to use to find the right journal.

Using a journal matching technology based on your manuscript title and abstract, the following tools can help you find journals that could be best suited for publishing your systematic review article. You will need also to consult the journal’s aims and scope for further guidance. Simply insert your title and abstract and select the appropriate field-of-research for the best results.

Journal Finder Tools

Elsevier Journal Finder
EndNote Manuscript Matcher With a few key pieces of information—your title, abstract, and references—EndNote Match can help you find the right journal for your manuscript.
Jane Biosemantics Just enter the title and/or abstract of the paper in the box, and click on 'Find journals', 'Find authors' or 'Find Articles'. Jane will then compare your document to millions of documents in PubMed to find the best matching journals, authors or articles. Instead of using a title or abstract, you can also search using a keyword search, similar to popular web search engines. Click here to search using keywords.
JournalGuide JournalGuide's goal is "to bring all sources of data together in one place to give authors a simple way to choose the best journal for their research."
Springer Journal Suggester
Edanz Journal Selector Edanz was established in Japan in 1995 and has helped thousands of researchers all over the world successfully publish in international journals.
Wiley Journal Recommendation
Paid service. Check the web site for blog posts on tips of choosing the right journal for your research.

Open Access Publishing Fund

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Open Access Publishing Fund

To increase the visibility of your research, consider publishing it in an open access journal. Search the Directory of Open Access Journals to find an appropriate journal for your manuscript.

The UMD Libraries provide funding of 50% of the article processing charges.

For details about the Fund, go to UMD Libraries' Open Access Publishing Fund's web site.