UCSF Guides: Maximizing Your Research Impact: Before you publish

Which journals are publishing similar articles?

JANE (Journal/Author Name Estimator)
Copy & paste your abstract to find articles, journals & authors that have published similar content.
SJ Finder
Copy & paste your title/abstract to find journals that publish similar content.
Search alerts (PubMed)
Identify journals & authors publishing on your topic.
Search alerts (Google Scholar)
Identify authors/journals citing your existing work and those publishing on your topic.

Impact Factor
Identify "top" journals in your field (or 'category') based on impact factors.
CiteScore
Identify "top" journals in your field by CiteScore, based partly on the % of citations for each.
h-index: Google Scholar
Identify "top" journals in 'Health & Medical Sciences' by h-index.
Who can find my journal: Ulrich's
If it's not indexed, no one will be able to find it. Search Ulrich's to see which databases a journal is included in.
Which journals are open access: SHERPA/RoMEO
Find OA info for a variety of journals.
UCSF OA Publishing Fund
Open access = available to more people = more citations. Apply for UCSF's OA fund to receive $ for OA journal fees each year.
Avoid predatory journals
Checklist to use if you think a publisher or conference invitation may not be legitimate.

Transparency & Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines
Register your study, cite shared data, share your data.
Ten simple rules for creating a good data management plan
Plos article.
Dryad data repository
Share your data, track usage/views, enable citing (DOI).
OSF study registration
Preregister your study to share your work.
Center for Open Science study registration
Preregister your study.
Preprints: SocArXiv
Post your pre-published work.
Preprints: PsyArXiv
Post your pre-published work.
Preprints: medRxiv
Post your pre-published work.
Preprints: bioRxiv
Post your pre-published work.