Where to Publish

There are several points to consider when publishing an article and academic work / scientific.

Is the Journal Citation Reports that determines the impact factor of a journal. Although the impact factor being the most known factor in determining the quality and relevance of scientific journals, there are other important factors as the immediacy index and the Half life of a journal.

The determination of these indices has several purposes. For example

To evaluate the quality of a journal as a way of knowing whether it is useful or not to publish it.
Determining whether the journal is in growth or not. If not, the odds of being quoted diminish.
Evaluate the quality of the journals signed in a library and determine which should be signed.
Evaluate journal in which an author is likely to be faster cited.
To decide where to publish the results of your scientific work, it is also useful to know:

The determination of these indices has several purposes. For instance

To evaluate the quality of a journal as a way of knowing whether it is useful or not to publish it.

Determining whether the journal is in growth or not. If not, the odds of being quoted diminish.

Evaluate the quality of the journals signed in a library and determine which should be signed.

Evaluate journal in which an author is likely to be faster cited.

To decide where to publish the results of your scientific work, it is also useful to know:

Identify the titles of periodicals available in a particular subject area;
Evaluate the relevance of the journals, for example, using the Journal Citation Reports (JCR);
Identify conferences and meetings and to submit articles in order to inform yourself of the conditions of acceptance of articles in scientific journals;
Know the issues of copyright law and self-archiving in repositories.

There are several databases and websites that provide indicators that weigh quality and quantity of the articles. This allows not only to know the importance of journals in different subject areas, but also to assess the relevance and impact of research in a particular investigator and / or institution.

Currently are two primary measures used at the ranking of journals:

The impact factor, JCR available in the ISI Web of Knowledge and
The H-index, available from Scopus and Web of Science;