Research Square Launches JournalGuide to Help Academics Find Best Journal for Their Manuscripts - BWWGeeksWorld

"Research Square – the U.S.-based, for-benefit organization which provides tools and services to hasten the pace of scientific discovery for the global academic community – has launched JournalGuide, a free tool to help researchers publish faster by choosing the best match for their manuscript from the beginning. Using a central information hub containing primary data from journals, secondary information from public sources, and perhaps most importantly, the shared experiences of researchers who have previously submitted papers to those journals, JournalGuide helps researchers to quickly evaluate scholarly journals in order to determine which ones reach their intended audience and, therefore, represent the best match for the content of their manuscript ... JournalGuide works by matching scholarly journals to the content of academic papers so that researchers can immediately determine which journals will be most likely to have an interest in their articles. Researchers can use the title and abstract of a paper to discover which journals have already published articles on similar topics, in addition to searching by journal name, category, or publisher.  Unlike other search tools, JournalGuide also allows researchers to share their own publishing experiences with colleagues and to learn from others' feedback. Through these shared ratings, researchers can help their colleagues make informed decisions about where to submit their papers. Author feedback also helps journals to improve, promoting a level of transparency that has not been available in scholarly publishing in the past.  While author ratings for journals are anonymous, they are audited by JournalGuide staff. Authors must be logged in to provide feedback and data are presented anonymously and in aggregate. JournalGuide currently is accepting ratings from authors, but is not yet displaying community data ..."