This guide is designed to help authors navigate and utilize Cabells Journalytics and Predatory Reports, a journal discovery platform with key data on thousands of medical journals. This resource helps researchers discover quality publications while protecting them from predatory publishers.
Explore the sections of this guide to find tips on how to evaluate journal quality, impact, and influence to find reputable journals that match your publication goals. If you have any questions or issues with Journalytics & Predatory Reports, please contact the Maguire Medical Library.
More detailed instructions on navigating the platform, verifying journal metrics, and identifying predatory publishers can be found in the Cabells User Guide below:
Journalytics & Predatory Reports is a resource designed to take the guesswork out of choosing the best journals to support the publication process.
With Journalytics & Predatory Reports, students & researchers can:
With Journalytics & Predatory Reports, faculty & staff can:
Key features of Journalytics & Predatory Reports allow you to:
Check
If you know the title, ISSN, publisher, or a relevant keyword, use the search and/or filters function to browse titles. All publications included in Journalytics & Predatory Reports are hand-verified with up-to-date information on quality journals and thousands of predatory journals.
Verify
If you need to confirm the validity of a questionable journal, Predatory Reports includes detailed briefs of the deceptive practices of more than 19,000 predatory publications that are to be avoided. Journals are evaluated against 70+ indicators and violation reports are broken down by severity and category.
Evaluate
If you're ready to compare journals and prepare your work for submission, use Journalytics data and Cabells' suite of citation-backed metrics to find the best journal for your needs. Every publication listed includes manuscript and submission guidelines, publication fees, peer review and publication timelines, and more.