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Is MDPI a reputable publisher? [duplicate]
I have received an invite from MDPI to guest edit a special issue journal. I was wondering if anybody had any thoughts on how reputable they are?
This question has been asked on this forum before but ...
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Is "Pure and Applied Mathematics Journal" reputable? [duplicate]
I ask this question because there are at least several journals with similar titles, but I thought about submitting to this one in particular http://www.pamath.org/index. Is this a reputable math ...
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Can one without a single paper on a topic write a review paper about it?
I am faculty in a technical field, and I started exploring a new research direction that I could work on in the coming years.
I have not worked yet on this particular topic I am exploring, but after ...
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How do journals gain and lose reputation?
This is something I've been curious about for a while, and there's little public or explicit information about it. It's obvious that some journals are considered very prestigious and other journals ...
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Do npj and Nature-branded journals have the same reputation such that I can say I published "in a Nature journal" after publishing in npj?
In 2014, Nature collaborated with parters and launched npj, and they state "Nature Partner Journals adopt a modified set of Nature editorial standards". In fact, relatively high impact factors are ...
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Journal's website states different and much higher impact factor than what I found on Scopus. What do I do?
I looked up the website of a journal where someone I know had published research. They listed their Scopus impact factor as a number that is much higher than when I searched the website of Scopus.
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When picking a journal for my research should I value the publisher's reputation over the journal's impact factor?
I'm in the process of selecting an appropriate journal for my article. I short-listed a few journals based on topic coverage, IF and speed of the review process.
I am confused: should I select a ...
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Is Australian Business Deans Council Journal Quality List 2013 a good metric to ascertain journal quality?
I found some discussion on how one should avoid journals on Beall's list.
Related: How do you judge the quality of a journal?
I wish to know about other such lists to ascertain good journals.
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Do Indian journals represent the quality of Indian universities?
Since I published my first paper in a well-respected journal I receive approx. one time per month an invitation to journals such as Global Journal of Engineering Science and Research Management and ...
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Is there any general consensus that either Elsevier or Springer is viewed as more prestigious for publishing in engineering?
What (if any) is the general consensus out there regarding publishing in one of these journals vs the other?
I am a mechanical engineer, specialising in fluid flow and heat transfer, so would it be ...
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Where to find journal impact factors stripped of self-citation?
Where can I find a database of impact factors where self-citation has been removed? A journal's self-citations are defined as those citations by that journal's papers towards other papers in the same ...
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Towards a Stackexchange-like comment/reputation system for research papers
We have had quite a few discussions on how to gauge the quality of research papers and academic journals. The consensus is that it is tough to identify a single metric which could reveal this quality ...
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How do you judge the quality of a journal?
A colleague and I recently submitted a paper to a journal with an impressive-sounding name, the "International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Research". According to ...
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