Guides
Guides to journal search and submission
Explanations of indexing checks, ranking systems, review times and fees. The guides help you read the facts; they don't replace your institution's policies or a journal's own requirements.
How to Check Whether a Journal Is Really Indexed in SCIE
Verify a journal's Web of Science status on four levels: its identity, the official database, its ISSN, and when the record was last checked.
Read the guide →Submission guideHow to Read Journal Rankings: System, Edition and Category
Understand the CAS Journal Ranking and JCR quartiles, their editions, and major versus minor categories, so different rankings are never mixed into one number.
Read the guide →Submission guideHow to Read Review Times and Acceptance Rates
Tell publisher-reported processing times from community reports and single submission stories, so an average is never mistaken for a promise.
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