Research Guides: Political Science: Publish Your Work

How to Find Journals to Publish in

Cabell's Directories Cabell's goal is to facilitate scholarly communication by helping researchers select the most appropriate outlets for their work. It specializes in providing manuscript and review process guidelines, journal quality metrics, submission criteria and other information researchers might need to match their manuscripts with the journals most likely to be interested in publishing their work. Cabell's journal ratings feature also allows researchers to share their own submission and publication experiences and to gain valuable insight from their colleagues' experiences. NOTE: UH Manoa has access to the education set.

Scimago Journal & Country Rank The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains. Journals can be compared or analysed separately. Country rankings may also be compared or analysed separately. Journals can be grouped by subject area (27 major thematic areas), subject category (313 specific subject categories) or by country. Citation data is drawn from over 21,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers and country performance metrics from 239 countries worldwide. The SJCR allows you also to embed significative journal metrics into your web as a clickable image widget

Journal Citation Reports Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
Journal Citation Reports can show you the most frequently cited journals in a field, highest impact journals in a field, and the largest journals in a field. Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. By tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts, JCR offers a unique perspective for journal evaluation and comparison. This resource is available thanks to the JABSOM Health Sciences Library.
Ulrich's Web Ulrichsweb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) A directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Google Scholar Metrics The top 100 English language journals (ranked by h5-index and h5-median).