Journals
Publication of any article, book, letter related to any area of science, art, commerce, management, etc. needs a publisher. An organized body that has a core team to review a submitted document, formatting staff for final publication of an article in a specific volume, the issue is Journal. Journals are broadly classified into two classes Print and Electronic (Online). Print Journals provide hard copies of the published articles to the author, libraries, conferences, etc. Electronic journals provide published articles digitally through web portals. Journals are differentiated on the basis of open or paid access mode as well. In open access readers can read any paper without payment, subscription, or special credentials. In paid access an individual, organization, college, university purchases a package of the publisher for reading published papers.
This portal organizes journals profiles as per current status of the content like publisher name, address, year of the start of journal, current indexing of the journal, paid or free access, web address, etc.. Following are the major cause of developing this portal:
Journal Evaluation Parameters of ABCD-Index |
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ISSN |
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Compulsory |
E-ISSN |
0.9 |
Optional |
P-ISSN |
0.1 |
Age in Years |
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0-1 |
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0.1 |
1-3 |
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0.3 |
3-7 |
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0.5 |
7-10 |
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0.7 |
10> |
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1 |
Publication |
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No Publication |
In Last 1 Year |
0.05 |
Irrelevant Topics |
Some Issue |
0.1 |
Irrelevant Topics |
Average papers (5-10) |
0.15 |
Irrelevant Topics |
Average papers (10-30) |
0.2 |
Irrelevant Topics |
Average papers >50 |
0.25 |
Relevant Topics |
Some Issue |
0.2 |
Relevant Topics |
Average papers (5-10) |
0.4 |
Relevant Topics |
Average papers (10-30) |
0.8 |
Relevant Topics |
Average papers >50 |
1 |
Review |
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Yes |
Editor |
0.2 |
Yes with Report |
1 Reviewer |
0.4 |
Yes with Report |
2 Reviewer |
0.9 |
Yes with Report |
2 or more Reviewer |
1 |
Formatting |
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Irregular |
Some Papers |
0.1 |
Regular |
Without Citation |
0.5 |
Strict |
With Citation |
1 |
Review Time |
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5-10 Days |
Reviewer Comments |
1 |
10-20 Days |
Reviewer Comments |
0.7 |
20-30 Days |
Reviewer Comments |
0.5 |
30 Days Above |
Reviewer Comments |
0.2 |
Publisher |
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Organization |
Academic/ Research |
1 |
Company/ NGO |
With Audit |
0.9 |
NGO |
Without Audit |
0.3 |
Individual |
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0.3 |
SEO |
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On-Page |
Yes |
0.3 |
Off-Page |
Yes |
0.5 |
On + Off Page |
Yes |
1 |
Indexing |
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Inter-National |
Multiple |
1 |
Inter-National |
Single |
0.9 |
Only National |
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0.7 |
Other |
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0.3 |
Promotion |
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Social Sites |
Yes |
0.3 |
Library |
Yes |
0.3 |
Social Sites + Library |
Yes |
1 |
Website:Guidelines, Fee, Indexing, etc. |
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Basic Information |
Not Clear |
0.5 |
Basic Information |
Clear |
1 |
Journal showing any fake logo, indexing, back date publication, unethical practice will be removed. |
-5 |
# Publication: Irrelevant means journal publish paper from out of domain like physics journal publish pharmacy papers.
# Formatting: Irregular means journal do publication without following its own format like headings, references, figure, table positions, citations, etc.
# SEO: On-Page SEO means journal follow basic rules of search engines so content is readable. Off-Page SEO means journal increase reach of web content by listing, directory submission, etc.
# Indexing: Inter-National means Web of Science, ABCD-Index, Scopus, Pubmed.
# Promotion: Journal should present on social platforms so reader come to know about it and authors get benefitted.
# Website: Basic Information like authors guidelines, reviewers guideline, download links of copyright form, manuscript format, cover letter format(optional), Contacts (Email, Phone, Address), Publisher Details, Editor details, Payment / APC details, Open/Subscription model.
Total Points 10
A: Category Journal have 9 to 10 points.
B: Category Journal have 8 to 8.9 points
C: Category Journal have 6.5 to 7.9
D: Category Journal have 5 to 6.4
Journal who are getting score below 5 need improvement.
Example:
Score of Journal having: E-ISSN + 1-3 Age + Publication (5-10)+ Editor+ Regular + Individual + OnPage + Index Other + Social Sites +Clear
0.9+0.5+0.3+0.4+0.2+0.5+0.3+0.3+0.3+0.3+1 = 5
Indexing: Most of the researcher are searching journals for specific indexing, hence ABCDIndex provide an Indexing filter for famous indexing like SCIE, ESCI, SCOPUS, UGC CARE, THOMAS REUTERS, etc.
Country: Portal helps scholars to filter journals as per country as most of the time the publication process needs an international transaction, so some country researcher faces a major issue. This filter helps scholars to select a country as per transaction compatibility.
Print/Online: This information helps authors to get the final medium of publication as some of the people are making some fake websites of print journals that are publishing content. So a clear publication medium is mentioned for each journal profile page.
Rating: ABCDIndex provides a rating of the journal as per the current indexing dataset, review time, transaction transparency (as some journals mention publication charges in email), citation of the journal, papers, etc. This rating helps scholars to select journals as per their requirement.
Paid/Free: Journal payment condition for publication of a paper is mentioned by this filter.
International Journals common platform ABCDIndex monitors publishers and informs authors about the current behavior. We invite journals to signup and submit your journal to get indexing at ABCDIndex platform and increase the reach of journals around the globe between the authors community. Journals get benefitted by the portal under the following points:
Profile Page of Journal
Real Indexing Data
Visitor comments
Rating
Impact Factor
Increase Journal Traffic by real reader/authors
ABCD is a free to access platform for journals, authors, and readers. Our team works hard to insert and update research-related data continuously. Inform us about any journal information like paper processing time, indexing, web URL, paid/free access, publisher detail as this helps other young scholars. Knowledge should be spread and free for all.