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Journal Selection
Publishing is important for your career and helps you secure more funding for your research. Selection of an inappropriate journal is one of the most common reasons for rejection of a manuscript. Reading about and assessing all the possible journals can be time consuming and frustrating. Edanz will do this for you, and match journals to your paper and your goals.
Service Description
What Edanz does
We give you a list of journals (3 or more) with an assessment of the benefits and risks associated with each. We also give you our recommendation of the most appropriate choice.
We consider:
Recent publication history
Scope of your study
Type of study (e.g., clinical study, case study, laboratory study)
Type of manuscript (e.g., short communication, full article, review article, letter to the editor)
Do you need to publish in a journal with a certain level of Impact Factor?
How quickly you wish to publish
What we need
Please send us all the relevant documents, if you have them:
Journal editor's comments
Reviewers' comments
Information of your target journal: First submission or re-submission?
The history of your paper: has it been rejected? If so, from which journal and when? Have you revised your paper?
Supporting or supplementary information, including figures and/or tables
Fees
For more details on our fees and fee policy, see here
Other
See a sample Journal Selection Report here .
See a sample Journal Recommendation letter from Edanz Science Director here .
Edanz has a free Journal Comparison Matrix, download it here .
Author's voice
PhD, Forensic Medicine, Japan
"From the contents of my manuscript, it was so reassuring that your Journal Selection Service picked such a suitable journal for me. The corrections, revisions, questions and issues and last but not least the editing were all handled well and I am really satisfied. I was comforted by the accuracy of the answers from the editors- so reassuring. I have tried other editing companies before but this is the first time I have felt so well treated. Next time, I will definitely be using your service. Thank you."
For other testimonials, see here .