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Choosing a journal

Choosing the right journal for your research will save you time, assist you in preparing your manuscript according to the journal’s requirements, and maximise the chance of your work being accepted.

Choosing a journal

Choosing the right journal for your research will save you time, assist you in preparing your manuscript according to the journal’s requirements, and maximise the chance of your work being accepted.

Doing the following three things will inform your search:

1. Ask colleagues who know your work and have published before for advice

2. Consider the publications you already read which are relevant to your research

3. Use the checklist below to ask yourself questions which will narrow down your search:

       ‎☐ Does the scope of the journal fit your work?

‎       ☐ Do you want to publish your work open access?

       ☐ Does the journal accept your manuscript type (e.g. full article, letter, case report, review)?

       ‎☐ Do you want to publish in a broad-reach journal or a niche-interest journal?

       ‎☐ Do you want to publish in an international or region-specific journal?

       ‎☐ Do you want to publish in a high-impact journal or a journal with a more specific audience?

       ‎☐ Do you want to publish in your learned society’s journal?

       ‎☐ Do you need to publish your work quickly?

 

To answer these questions, the journal's instructions for authors provide a comprehensive overview, but here’s a quick reference guide:

Scope: Instructional review articles across the whole of orthopaedics and traumatology, summarizing current knowledge and practice in orthopaedics

Editor: Professor Emeritus Pierre Hoffmeyer, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland

Society: European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT)

Impact Factor: 4.775

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Scope: basic, translational and clinical endocrinology and intersecting disciplines

Editor: Professor Emeritus Adrian Clark, St George’s University of London, UK

Societies: Society for Endocrinology and European Society of Endocrinology

Impact factor: 3.221

Time to accept: < 4 weeks

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Scope: basic, translational and clinical research and reviews on the interplay between hormones and cancer, and related topics

Editor-in-Chief: Professor Justo P Castaño, Reina Sofía University Hospital and University of Cordoba, Spain

Society: Official journal of the Society for Endocrinology

First response: 43 days

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Scope: basic, translational and clinical research on hormones and cancer, focusing on endocrine neoplasias and hormone-dependent cancers

Editor: Dr Matthew Ringel, The Ohio State University, USA

Societies: Society for Endocrinology (owning society); official journal of the Japanese Hormones & Cancer Society, the Endocrine Society of Australia and The North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society

Impact Factor: 5.900

First response: 13 days

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Scope: case reports on common and rare conditions in all areas of clinical endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism

Co-Editors-in-Chief: Dr Marie Freel, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, UK; Dr Sarantis Livadas, Metropolitan Hospital, Athens, Greece

Societies: 12 Endorsing Societies

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Scope: basic, clinical and translational paediatric and adult thyroidology, with a special focus on thyroid cancer

Editor: Professor Simon H Pearce, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Society: European Thyroid Association

Impact Factor: 4.084

First response: 28 days

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Scope: basic and translational studies on endocrine physiology and metabolism

Co-Editors-in-Chief: Professor Colin Farquharson, University of Edinburgh-Roslin Institute, UK; Professor Martin Haluzík, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Societies: Society for Endocrinology (owning society); official journal of Endocrine Society of Australia

Impact Factor: 4.669

First response: 21 days

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Scope: molecular and cellular mechanisms in endocrinology

Co-Editors-in-Chief: Professor Colin Farquharson, University of Edinburgh-Roslin Institute, UK; Professor Martin Haluzík, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Societies: Society for Endocrinology (owning society); official journal of Endocrine Society of Australia

Impact Factor: 4.869

First response: 25 days

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Scope: Microbiota and Host is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal publishing fundamental and applied research and reviews that advance our understanding of the impact of commensal microbiota both on their human and non-human hosts

Editor-in-Chief: Professor Bina Joe, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA

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Scope: Redox Experimental Medicine is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal publishing redox research that advances our understanding of the effect of redox processes on human health and disease. Read the full journal scope.

Editor-in-Chief: Professor Giuseppe Poli, San Luigi Hospital, University of Turin, Italy

Average time to first response: 21 days

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Scope: reproductive and developmental biology, and reproductive medicine

Co-Editors-in-Chief: Professor Christopher A Price, Université de Montréal, Canada; Associate Professor Karen Schindler, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

Owning Society: Society for Reproduction and Fertility

Impact Factor: 3.923

First response: 19 days

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Scope: Reproduction and Fertility is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal publishing research and reviews on basic, translational and clinical reproduction and fertility, across all animals and humans.

Co-Editors-in-Chief: Professor Andrew Horne and Professor Norah Spears, University of Edinburgh, UK

Owning Society: Society for Reproduction and Fertility

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Scope: basic, mechanistic, clinical and translational original research and reviews in vascular biology

Co-Editors-in-Chief: Professor Marie-José Goumans and Professor Paul Quax, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands

First response: 100 days

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