How to choose good journal in neuroscience with no fee? I'm a post-doc but with some other post-doc from other labs we are doing research in neurosciences in our free time, and so we are not funding for these projects.
But we would like to publish in a recognized &quot;serious&quot; journal (but no need for a high impact factor).
We tried to look at https://doaj.org/ but we do not know on which criterion to sort the thousands of journals listed or decide if it is a serious journal or not.
On which criteria can we consider a journal being &quot;serious&quot;?
Thanks a lot!
I am not at all familiar with the landscape of journals in neurosciences, so I cannot give you a concrete journal name. But consider this: you are writing a paper to be submitted to a neurosciences journal. I presume that this paper includes references to related work, also published in similar journals. Which journals appear most often in your bibliography? Consider those for your publication first.
Alternatively, seek out the publication records of neurosciences researchers that you truly admire, and find out which journals appear frequently on their (recent) publication records. If top neurosciences researchers publish frequently in a journal, it is likely to be a recognized journal accepting neurosciences papers.