Publication Quality, Evaluating Publishers, and Bibliometrics

• What to consider when choosing which journal to submit your paper to, an article from the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog with fantastic rubrics for evaluating publishers
• Jane Friedman's Writing, Reading, and Publishing in the Digital Age provides valuable advice on choosing a book publisher.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education curates articles and opinion essays on all aspects of the topic in their Publishing section.
• The Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE) in the Netherlands created a widely-used ranking of academic publishers.
• Keep your copyrights: Sample contracts for a wide range of publication types, from Columbia Law School.
  • Consult our Author Rights guide

Both our Resources for Academic Publishing and Boost Your Scholarly Profile guides are valuable resources for in-depth learning about:

• how scholarly communications work
• how to pick a publisher
• how to promote your work once it is published
• how to increase your impact as a scholar