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Resources to Identify Trusted Publishers & Journals
Unsure where to submit your manuscript for publication?
Request assistance in selecting a journal for your manuscript.
Tools available to help you identify trustworthy publishers and journals are listed below.
Think.Check.Submit
simple checklist researchers can use to assess the credentials of a journal or publisher.
Journal Evaluation Tool
a scoring sheet that anyone can use to determine the credibility of a journal
Potential predatory and legitimate biomedical journals: can you tell the difference? A cross-sectional comparison. Shamseer, et al., BMC Medicine 15:28 (2017).
Combating Predatory Academic Journals & Conferences
IAP Report
Beware of Predatory Journals
If a journal is indexed (ie. included in the journal list) of:
PubMed (MEDLINE) or
CINAHL (nursing & allied health literature)
or DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
and/or JCR (Journal Citation Reports
it is a good indicator that the journal is not predatory.
Search DOAJ by journal title or ISSN
Search JCR by journal title or ISSN
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CINAHL
Publications (click Publications tab at top left on CINAHL home page)
