Find Your Journal β€” Publish It!
Publish It!

Find Your Journal

A guided framework for building and ranking a shortlist of journals for your paper β€” from long list to submission-ready in four steps.

"Most journal articles aren't suitable for top journals, being too narrow in claim, evidence, or argument." β€” Wendy Belcher

1
Your paper
2
Screen & compare
3
Fit assessment
4
Your shortlist
1 Describe your paper
Fill in the details below to create a long list of 8–10 candidate journals.
If your contribution is methodological, say so. If it's empirical, theoretical, or a case study, say so. Be specific β€” this shapes the quality of your journal search.
Separate with commas. These go directly into journal finder search boxes.
β†— Journal finder resources

Search a minimum of 2 journal finders (they only search within the journals they publish, so you will get different recommendations from each one). Use the checklist to refine your long list. Goal: 8–10 candidate journals.

Journal finders

Researcher.Life β†— Elsevier β†— Wiley β†— Springer β†— Taylor & Francis β†— MDPI β†— Sage β†—
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If the results don't look right…

Journal finders read your abstract as written. If they're returning journals that don't match what your paper is actually about, the problem is usually not the finder β€” it's that your abstract leads with context (setting, background, problem) rather than your core contribution. A paper on capital goods boundary treatment in urban LCA that opens with urban food production statistics will be read as an urban food paper. If your results feel off, ask: does my abstract accurately summarize the contents and contribution of the paper?

2 Add your candidate journals
Enter up to 10 journals from your long list. Fill in what you know β€” you don't need every field.
Journal type guide β–Ύ
3 AI fit assessment
The AI will read your paper description and assess the fit for each journal you've entered. Use this alongside your own judgment β€” the AI can read your abstract, but it can't read the journal's current editorial appetite.
4 Your ranked shortlist
Use the comparison table and the AI fit assessments from Step 3 as a starting point. Before you assign your final rank order, consider your own priorities and constraints β€” budget for open access fees, submission deadlines, how competitive you want to be, and anything else specific to your situation. Rank 1 is your first submission choice. You may only submit to one journal at a time.