Picking the Journal
Your literature review helps you identify appropriate journals.  Here are some questions to ask before submitting:

• Scope: many education journals are specifically for K-12
• How “findable” the proposed journal’s content is
  • Is the journal indexed in ERIC, Education Source, or other education-related databases?
  • Do individual articles have digital object identifiers or DOIs?
• Does the journal have clear policies related to author’s rights and copyright transfer or open access policy?
  • Does the journal allow me to add my article to an institutional repository?

Browse or search

• education-related journals  on Scimago
• Ulrich’s Directory of Periodicals
• Cabell’s whitelist
• Scopus preview
• Web of Science master journal list

Recently launched and stand-alone journals are unlikely to be listed on Scimago (based on Scopus data), Scopus, or Web of Science.

List of potential journal publishing venues  (contact mberger@citytech.cuny.edu with suggestions)

Most commercial publishers offer immediate  or gold open access  publishing options for individual articles but will require that authors pay fees or APCs.  Alternatively, most publishers will allow authors to self-archive the accepted manuscript  (postprint) of their article, after publication, in an institutional repository.

• AERA Open, Sage (fee-based open access)
• GSA Today,  Geological Society of America  (no-fee open access)
• InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching (no-fee open access)
• International Journal Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (no-fee open access)
• Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Indiana U. (no-fee open access)
• Numeracy, University of South Florida (no-fee open access)
  

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• American Educational Research Journal, Sage
• International Journal of STEM Education, Springer
• Journal of College Student Development, Johns Hopkins U.
• Journal of Geoscience Education, Taylor & Francis
• Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, Begelhouse
• New Directions for Higher Education, Wiley
• Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, Council on Undergraduate Researchers [open access policy: contact the journal post-publication to seek permission to self-archive on a case-by-case basis. Self-archiving without permission is allowed if mandated by institution or grant.]
• Science Education & Civic Engagement: An International Journal, National Center for Science and Civic Engagement. “The Journal does not require authors to transfer all intellectual property and copyrights to the work to the Journal; we do, however, require that authors share those rights equally with the Journal.”
• Studies in Higher Education, Taylor & Francis

Thank you to Dr. Janet Liou-Mark for identifying many of these journals for NYCCT’s Mid-Career Faculty Publishing Workshop Series.