Overviews of academic journals aimed at helping professors, graduate students, and researchers publish their manuscripts. Information includes the type of review process, acceptance rate, and the number of internal and external reviews used by the journal. The predatory reports module identifies deceptive and fraudulent journals by reviewing on a 65-point metric to flag potentially exploitative or dishonest operations.
The Directories also includes extensive information on the style, format of most journals along with analytics-impact factor, Altmetrics (social media mentions), and citation rankings
It contains more than 10000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science, and humanities. The organization aims to cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
Research impact is the demonstrable contribution that research makes to academia and society. Research impact is often measured by either the author, article, or journal. For more information on how to measure impact, visit the Measuring Research Impact guide below.