After trying to avoid ‘googling’ these journals, I gave in and had better luck in finding descriptions of the scope of some of the journals in which Saxe has been published. Review sites contained more useful information on the content of the journals than the official sites of the journal and some even offered free issues for perusal. The Science Direct Database (in Browse mode) offers a link to "About this Journal" and it turns out that many of the descriptions that I found for the scope of the journals I looked at were from the same source- Elsevier. The Reed Elseiver company produces information in the fields of science, medicine, law, and business.
I don't want to give you a play by play of all of the journals in which Saxe has been published, but through these examples I've learned that journals can be very broad in their scope like Psychological Science or very narrow like Current Opinion in Neurobiology--
Psychological Science is a journal that publishes articles concerning the brain and human behavior, clinical science, cognition, learning and memory, social psychology, and developmental psychology as well as articles discussing the application of psychological topics in government and the public sphere.
Unfortunately Current Opinion in Neurobiology seems to strictly adhere to reviewing Neurobiology and thus the cells of the brain and how they function-- lacks the interdisciplinary facets of the other journals at first glance.
I find it very interesting that many journals limit authors from submitting their work to any other journals, but at the same time can vary so much in their scope that perhaps they might not consider a piece as within their area when the author does. It would be very prudent for scientists hoping to have their research published to be familiar with exactly what the publishers are looking for and be well-acquainted with their requirements for consideration for publication. Journal publication is much more selective than I had originally thought so it is surprising how interdisciplinary Saxe's research is and how it has been received by publishers.
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It's important to note that ScienceDirect is the database platform that Elsevier created for their journals. I'm not aware of any other publishers journals being a part of that database. Note that you will have many Elsevier subsidiary companies in ScienceDirect and I know of at least one journal that Elsevier publishes on behalf of a society. So, when you search a tool like ScienceDirect, don't consider it a thorough search by any measure. You're pretty much only searching that company's journals.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great idea, to Google the journals that your respective scientist has been published in in order to gain knowledge of what the journal is about. I think its a great way to learn more about your scientist because it lets you know what journals they were published in and what their publications mean to the journals as well. Thanks for the tip!
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ReplyDeleteSlightly confused on the above post, is an author not allowed to submit a rejected manuscript from these journals to other journals? I know a lot of places don't want you to be submitting the same manuscript to others at the same time (in the off chance that they do select it, they don't want to have to fight over who gets to publish it with someone else) but I've never come across any information on publishers banning a writer from submitting a rejected manuscript elsewhere. But I have to agree that scientists really have to do their homework (and perhaps using google to do it :) )on where they attempt to publish, because it sounds like the acceptance/rejection process is...quite frankly: a process. Having to resubmit a manuscript and wait a second waiting period isn't exactly beneficial to getting your research out there while it's still fresh.