You want to share your research with the largest, most relevant audience possible for discoverability and impact.

Getting your research read and cited benefits your individual career, but also assists the whole of UWA in university rankings and ERA. These rankings are based on the quality of research papers. Equally, you need to ensure your quality papers are read by the research community! UWA's focus is to publish quality research in journals that are widely read and cited.

To identify relevant and quality journals to publish in, consider the following:

• Relevance - Does your paper match the aim and scope of the journal?
• Reputation - What are the key journals and publications in your area of research?  Where do those at the top of your field publish their work? What do you read? Which journals are included in key databases in your field?  
• Impact factor - Which are the high impact journals in your field? For more info about journal impact, see evaluating journals from our research metrics guide.
• Quartile rankings - Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), can be used to find the subject category and quartile ranking of a journal. Quartile 1 (Q1) is applied to journals ranked in the top 25% in their category. Identify top journals by viewing the Q1 Journals list.
• Journal Lists and Indexes - Which journals are indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, or other big databases used in your discipline? Is the journal you are considering marked as Refereed  in Ulrich's directory?
• Open Access (OA) publishing  - OA journal articles can reach an audience beyond academia, including practitioners, policy makers, NPOs, researchers in developing countries and the general public - anyone with an internet access. Consider making your research findings openly accessible, at no cost to readers. The UWA Open Access Toolkit your options for publishing OA at UWA.

These resources can be used to find quality Open Access journals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAG)

An independent, community curated directory that indexes and makes accessible high quality, open access peer reviewed journals. Use it to find open access journals in which to publish or search for journals and articles you wish to read. It includes search functionality that allows you to find journals that do not charge article processing fees.

Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory 

An easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types. Conduct an initial keyword search and then use the narrow results feature to limit to open access publications.