Selecting the right journal is essential to ensuring that your findings reach the desired audience. Follow these steps to find journals that would be a good fit for your manuscript:

1. Analyze the text of your title and abstract with a journal matching tool. Tools like JANE or Clarivate’s Manuscript Matcher suggest journals based on a text-matching search.

2. Use SPI-Hub to review the author guidelines of the top matched journals. Does your article fit in with the scope and aims of the journal? Is the journal indexed in MEDLINE? Does the journal accept similar articles?

3. Review the reputation of the journal with tools like Journal Citation Reports and Cabells. Review the FAQ “How do I know if my journal is a reputable journal?” for more details.

   Are you having trouble determining if a journal is predatory? Use the library's journal assessment tool.

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