Journals

Overview of a Journal

What is a magazine?

A magazine is a paper publishes information periodically, which has contained general public news, opinion and private narratives of any particular topic or issue. Either it is knowledge or to entertain the public. It is a weekly, monthly published paper to entertain the readers.

Popular magazines:

The periodical is a word used to describe any publication, those are published multiple times. It is the third category of trade journals or papers, it may include daily or popular news in public was written by professionals but not research related.

In Magazines, there are two main types- Magazines of general interest: These are the normal papers to entertain the public. News magazines are published on weekly or monthly on popular news in media or newspapers. Sports magazines, high-class magazine, movie magazine, technical magazines etc.

What is a journal?

Journals are scholarly regular published papers. The journals contain articles which are submitted by the researchers, Ph.D. students or specialists of a particular subject or any other fields like psychology, medical, science researchers etc.

Types of Journals:

• Academic journals
• Peer-review journals

Academic Journals:

An Academic journal may be a regular publication that is scholarship referring to a selected educational discipline. Many of those are function permanent and transparent forum for the presentation of the analysis of research. These regular publication are based on scholarship relating to a particular field of research. The main goal of this publishing journals is to give researchers a venue to “convey their knowledge to another and contribute what they did to improve the nature knowledge and perfecting all professional fields”.

Open access journals: Open access means free available, digital, online information, which is free of cost to access that information. It is less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published work to users and authors.

Scholarly: Scholarly is another type of Academic journals, many instructions at the college level they use scholarly journal articles as a source when writing a research paper. These are also written by experts in academic or professional fields researchers for excellent sources to the newly researcher.

Trade or professional journals: Trade and professional publications are magazines, journals, newspapers, written for particular business, advertising purposes, and marketing products. It is based on pay and uses services to publish the articles. 

Peer-review Journals :

Peer-review journal articles are also written by the experts but it is reviewed by several other experts in those fields before it published, in order to maintain article content quality in journals. It is the main reason behind rejecting articles to publish. 

Benefits for Authors:

• Enables authors to comply with the increased number of founders mandates requiring the data to be visible publically.
• The reader preview data file are directly shown on site need not store on the system to the authors. 
• Licensed and guidelines are present to each, the specification Authors own. 
• Increased citation usage: Published journals are sited or viewed in all countries through online, to increase the visitor to them.
• Grater public engagement: The impact of this publication is based on strong public interest.
• Faster impact: on publishing the right platform, it shows faster growth to the Authors. It is easy for researchers to empower to build on existing research quickly.
• Wider collaboration: The publication data submitted are carried out by the researchers globally.
• Allow the visitors to directly access links provided by the Authors.

Benefits for Visitors/Readers:

• Quality: Visitor has the Good quality of content or information in the published papers.
• Accurate: Visitors can Access advanced, updated, correct information provided by the Authors.
• Open Search: Some of the sites can freely Access information anywhere in the world.
• Speed: offers fast and speed to maintain the integrity of providing information.
• Visibility: Full visibility of the information of the journals are available, they can read.

what is an impact factor and ISSN:

An impact factor (IF) is a measure of the frequency, which the average articles in a journal are cited in a year. It is used for calculation of rank or importance of articles, journals when those are cited.

Calculation of impact factor:

This calculation is based between two years period included the number of times is listed.

For example:

Take Jacobs journals of two years previous.

X= the number of times articles published in 2016 and 2017 were cited by indexing in 2018

Y= the total number of citable items published in 2016-2017

Hence,

X/Y = 2018 Impact factor.

ISSN:

International Standard Serial Number(ISSN) is a unique number to identify a printed or electronic periodical journals title. It is especially used to distinguish between same title journals. Usually, it is eight-digit code that is, it has eight digits like “NNNN-NNNC”.

Where, N = {0,1,2……..9} C={0,1,2,…..9,X};

what is Scopus? PubMed and google scholar indexing:

SCOPUS:

A Scopus is a bibliographic database containing the abstract, citation for Academic journals, it stores more than 22,000 titles from 5,000 publications. In this publication, nearly 20,000 are peer-viewed journals of scientific, medical, social and pharma sciences. Scopus gives four types of quality measures of each title, those are h-indexing, cite score, SJR(SCImago journal rank) and SNIP(Source Normalised Impact Per Paper). It includes three types of sources which are journals, trade journals, and book series.

PubMed:

Pubmed is a free search engine accessing fundamentally in the Medline database to store reference and abstract of life science and bio-medical papers. Pubmed follows three Essential statuses that a journal have in it.

1. All articles in the journals are indexed in the Medline database means index Medicus and PubMed because it creates a free public search interface. This interface is connected to the Medline database it means all the Medline database will appear in the PubMed database
2. Only some select articles in the journals are deposited in PubMed central, because in order to comply with the public access policy in PubMed, otherwise not indexing in PubMed or Medline
3. Every article in the journal are published will be indexed only in Pubmed, not in medicine, in order to include its journals undergo a selective review process. Once the journal is registered under medcus these reports undergo extensive processing for other value-adding indexing

Google scholar indexing:

Google scholar provides an easy way to widely search for scholarly literature, from one place you can search across many sources, articles to your related topics from other websites. It can boost worldwide visibility and accessibility of the content and work with the scholarly indexing of peer-view papers, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports and make them searchable on google and google scholar.

Stages of article processing:

When we submit a research paper or article, it is not published soon it may go under processed. These are the stages in articles processing

Stage 1: Your article is received for production to begin, you have registered and signed a license agreement for your articles.

Stage2: Copying, editing, and typesetting of your articles to check grammar and nomenclature and typesetting your article or paper to look great and nice.

It rejects/ accept

Stage3: Proofing and corrections, after editing and typesetting the articles comes back to you, last chance to look before publishing.

After this, a link will be provided to you with a via-mail.

Stage4: Corrections passed and then in the publishing process, editors do all the above stages to check once again.

Stage5: Your article is in the early(pdf) view, no further modifications are not available in this stage.

Stage6: Issue publishing online, your articles are now available online.

Role of the editorial board in any journal:

An editorial board is a fundamental formed group of individuals to work directly with the editor to develop the research paper or articles. These editorial board members are experts on journal related areas or field presence internationally. These are taken training or oversight to perform editorial functions and their responsibilities actively. 

Editor responsibilities towards Author:

1. Providing guidelines to the author to submit and preparing the research paper or manuscript
2. State the clear statement of policies of journals on authors standers
3. Manage all authors with honesty, transparency, and fairness
4. Clearly, communicate with all the other editorial team members
5. Maintaining confidentiality for every author work
6. The establishment of an effective system and rapid peer-review

List of popular international journals

Wiley Publishers:

Wiley Publishers was started in 1807 by Charles Wiley. It was a print shop in Manhattan, United States. The company was a publisher on religious, legal and non-fiction titles, American literary figures as Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe belongs to 19th century. Later Charles Wiley changed his mind to publish topics on science, technical and engineering on his interest.

John Wiley who is the son of Charles Wiley took over the business when his father Charles Wiley died in 1826. This firm was successful as named as Wiley, Lane, and co., then Wiley and Putnam, and then John Wiley. The company acquired its present name as Wiley publishers in the year 1876.

Wiley Publishers company status:

At present Wiley Publisher’s headquarters is located in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States, it is traded as NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) in the US. It has been publishing its journals, articles, and books through Wiley online library since August 7, 2010. It is a collection of online resources like life, health, and physical sciences and as well as humanities.

Publication Process:

Coming to the publication process, before publishing, accepted articles need to come across these steps.

• Accepted article received in production
• Copyediting and typesetting
• Proofing and corrections
• Early view publication
• Issue published online
• Access and sharing

Elsevier:

Elsevier was founded in 1880 but it was actually established in 1580 by the founder Lodewijk Elzevir. The Elsevier’s family was used to maintain a bookseller shop and publishers in the Netherlands.

Later it is adopted the name and logo from the Dutch publishing house while the business was going on. Then Elsevier became the Dutch analytics and Information Company. After that it got access to providing scientific, technical and medical information, it was also one of the world’s major providers.

It was established in 1880 as a publishing company and it is a part of RELX group it is also known as Reed Elsevier till 2015. After this year products include such as journals the Science direct, The Lancet and cell, the collection of electronic journals, the trends and current opinion series of journals, the clinical key solutions for clinicians.

Publication process:

• After submitting the article the process of publication starts with the production phase.
• During this phase, the article appearance will change considerably, once the editor’s job is complete journal manager takes over the article through its information.
• The first step is to convert the article into a specific layout of the journal like tables, letters, text, references, and links into the new layout.
• Next coming to the process of proofing, probably this is the source of delay in the article life cycle, so Elsevier has been working on this to make the proofing process efficient and easier for authors.
• The proof center is a system where authors check their articles and correct mistakes directly in the text so that they don’t need to mark up a PDF.
• While the article is at the final check with the author then the journal manager assigns it to the issue of the journal and it will be uploaded to Science Direct.
• In its current stage, the article is an accepted manuscript; it’s available in the articles in the press in the journal section of the journal’s Science Direct, complete with DOI.
• If the article has an ABP (Article-based publishing) process in place, the article is put directly into the next level of the process; this will be the home for the rest of the articles life. If the article has no ABP, the article waits in the articles in the press area.

Nature:

Nature was founded by Norman Lockyer in 1919; he has succeeded as editor by Sir Richard Gregory. Nature is one of the most recognizable scientific journals in the world and was ranked the world’s most cited scientific journal by the science editor of the 2010 journal citation reports.

Publication process in nature:

It is very prestigious to being published in the Nature journal, in particular papers like empirical are often highly cited, which will be lead to grant funding, attention, and promotions from the mainstream media, from these positive feedback effects competition among scientists to publish in high-level journals like Nature and the very closest competitor, science will be very fierce.

In Nature publications, papers undergo an initial screening by the editor followed by peer review, before publication. The papers are only sent for the review if it is decided to that they deal with the topical subject groundbreaking in that particular subject or field. In some of the consequences, some majority of papers are rejected without review.

Springer International publishers:

Springer Publishing was established by Bernhard Springer in1950 and he was a grandson of Julius Springer, and it is located in the USA, on the 15th floor of a salmon tower in midtown Manhattan, New York City.

Publication process:

• Articles which are submitted undergo production phase
• Authors used to check text, links, artwork, and plagiarism in the articles
• In the next level articles go through the proofing and corrections, if any articles don’t fit enough criteria they will be rejected
• The articles which go through the above process are first published online by authors. After this, the articles will be accessible and sharable in the required journal

SAGE:

SAGE Publishing was founded by Sara Miller McCune in1965 in New York. SAGE company is an independent publishing company, now it is located in Newbury Park, California. It publishes more than 800 books and 1000 journals a year, science, science and technology, electronic products, humanities, and medicine.

Publication Process in SAGE:

• Communication
• E-prints and complimentary copies
• SAGE production
• Open access continuous publication
• Online first publication
• Promoting your article

Taylor and Francis Group:

Taylor and Francis Group was founded by William Francis and Richard Taylor in 1852 when they were in their publishing business. Their subjects covered education, chemistry, agriculture, law, geography, engineering, mathematics, social sciences, and medicine. Taylor initially founded his company in 1798. It is a United Kingdom-based publisher and conference company.

Publication process in Taylor and Francis Group:

The process of publishing an article is quite different in Taylor and Francis Group. It works in two types of processes. These are called accelerated publications.

The fast track process:

• After submitting the article it takes 2 to 3 weeks for acceptance. 1-2 weeks for peer review and 1 week for author revision
• Acceptance to online publication; it takes 1-2 weeks, proofs within 5 working days
• Submission to publication takes 3-5 weeks; online publication of final PDFs relies on authors returning proofs within 48 hours for the fast track

The rapid track process:

• Submission to acceptance takes 5-6 weeks; 3-4 weeks for peer-review and 2 weeks for author revision
• Acceptance to online publication takes 2-3 weeks and proofs within 10 working days
• Submission to publication: It takes 7-9 weeks for all tracks; online publication refers to the accepted author’s manuscript

IEEE Xplore:

IEEE Xplore is database research for access and discovery to electrical engineering, technical standards, conference proceedings and related materials on journal articles, electronics, and computer science and particular fields of science.

Publication process:

• On average, the IEEE process takes 3-4 weeks from submission to accept/reject notification
• Submission to publication time takes usually 4-6 weeks
• Submitted articles are undergoing a peer-review process. They aim for standard reviews time of fewer than 2 months
• When they receive the article, the administrator first decides the article whether it meets the formal criteria. If it is not Editor-in-chief consults the other members of the editorial board
• Once it reaches the editorial board first it will be published online and then promoted

Omics

Omics publishers provide peer-reviewed open access journals. It was established in 2007 by “Srinubabu. Gedela “and It’s the first journal published in 2008. The first journal of Omics is a journal of proteomics &Bioinformatics in 2008. It had more than 200 journal titles in 2012 and in 2015 it had about 700 journal titles.

Omics international conducted more than 3000+ conferences across the world. These conferences help to make a common platform to the researchers, scientists, and students to gain knowledge on recent research ideas. Omics consists of high impact factor and which are indexed in world-famous science databases like pub med Central, Obscure, Scopus, and Medline. 

Omics also hosts the international science Conferences and World Summits in India, USA, Dubai, Australia, and Europe. These summits promote knowledge providing an opportunity to researchers. And also, these summits and conferences attract world-renowned personalities. The main aim of Omics summits is the advocacy of scientific development. 

Currently, Omics has a more 50,000 editorial team and about 15 million readers. Omics international offers an award to the young scientists in the age of 30 years called Young Scientist Award.

Hindawi 

Hindawi is in an open access journal and one of the largest peer-reviewed publishers in the world. It was founded in 1997 by Ahmed Hindawi. The Country origin is Egypt and Headquartered in Cairo.

The first journal of Hindawi is a journal of mathematics and mathematical sciences. Hindawi had more than 250 journals now. It publishes more than 13,000 articles per year.

Hindawi Publishes across many fields of science, technology, medicine, and social science. some of these journals are indexed in the leading abstracting, Scopus, PubMed, INSPEC, Chemical Abstract, and Mathematical Reviews. 

Hindawi is a member of world-renowned Industry Organizations .like (COPE)the Committee on publication ethics, (ALPSP) the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, (OASPA) the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, (NISO) the National Information Standards Organization, (Crossref) the Publishers International Linking Association, (COUNTER) and Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources, (IDPF) the international Digital Publishing Forum, (ORCID) the Open Researcher and Contributor ID

This organization was certified with the ISO 9001:2000 quality management system by TÜV Rhineland.

Hindawi Submission Process follow these steps

• Initial technical and ethical checks performed by the editorial screening team 
• manage the review process and also the editorial team helps the journal’s Academics editors.
• By productions, team manuscript converts into a well-structured XML and professionally typeset article
• Co-ordinates proofing process by the Hindawi online proofing system (OPS) 
• Final check to confirms that the manuscript and review process by the Editorial Quality Assurance team. They follow the journal’s guidelines and policies strictly
• Hindawi is a member of (COPE) Committee on publication ethics. so it had high ethical standards for publication to provide high-quality scientific publications and public trust

MDPI

MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is founded in 1996 by Shu-Kun lin. Head Quartered in Basel, Switzerland. MDPI listed on predatory open access publishing Companies in 2014 and removed in 2015. Shu-Kun lin is also one of the founders of Molecular Diversity Preservation International.

MDPI provides peer-reviewed open access journals. The first journal on MDPI is a journal of molecular sciences. Now the Mdpi Journal webpage receives more than 5.8 monthly webpage views. It currently publishes 203 Journal Titles. Mdpi provides finance through article processing charges. 

It is the member of the Committee on publication ethics(COPE). Mdpi follows the strict ethical policies and to provide high-quality scientific Works. 

Mdpi is a member of the UN Global Impact to support the sustainability of corporate. Mdpi started with preservation of rare chemical Samples in 1996.

AHA journal (Journal of American Heart Association)

Journal of American Heart Association (AHA) was established in 2012 and the editor in chief is Barry London. it provides peer-reviewed open access to Scientific journals. American Heart Association is founded by six Cardiologists in 1924. This organization has 33 Million volunteer support and more than 3,400 employees. AHA is part of the HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research initiative) Program which was established by the World Health Organization.

AHA journals publish all types of articles including researches happening upon human subjects and also focused on health care policy papers related to cardiovascular diseases in clinical, epidemiological fields.

Scient Open Access

Scient open access is a publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals. It maintains about 60 journals and hosted about 10 conferences in clinical medicine and life science fields. Scient open access is mainly focused on technological innovations and excellence, for serving high-quality journals to the people and science and medical communities.

The manuscript submission process is based upon Genuinity and quality of the research. And it is examined by the editor within two days of submission. 

Jacobs publishers

Jacobs Publishers established in the year 2013 Oct 22nd, in 2018 it consists about 75 journal titles in various sciences like medical, Clinical, Engineering, and pharma. Jacobs Publishers operates in open access. Which charges the authors for article publication and publish those articles are distributed online for free of cost. It is Headquartered in Texas, USA and in India. It mainly focuses on the rising horizons of scientific innovations. And it provides a common platform for researchers, students, and professionals to open access mechanism. 

Jacobs Publishers hosts more than 15 international conferences in medical, clinical, life science and engineering sciences. These conferences attract famous renowned personalities, scientists, and policymakers.