These tools allow you to enter keywords or the full title and abstract of your manuscript and match to relevant journals.
The journal homepage is going to be the most important source for finding author guidelines and other submission information for authors.
Use these resources to verify claims made on the journal website, and to find indexing, bibliometrics and other details about journal publications.
Which journals do you or your mentor/colleagues use?
Who is your desired audience?
Are you required to comply with public access mandates for sharing of publications and/or data?
Is the journal subscription, open access, or hybrid?
What is the quality of the peer review process?
Do you have a specific manuscript type in mind?
Predatory publishing refers a pay-to-publish model with low academic standards. Predatory journals aggressively solicit authors to submit articles with the promise of speedy publication, for a fee. Predatory journals by definition have little to no peer review (very high to 100% acceptance rates) and generally are not in keeping with the standards of ethical publishing.
For authors, publishing in these low quality journals can be a poor outlet for quality work and financially exploitative. For the scientific community, they muddy the waters of legitimacy as these non-peer reviewed journals are increasingly cited.
Features of predatory journals: