Journal indexing agencies

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Journal indexing agencies Source: http://ijifactor.com/blog/journal-indexing-agencies/ This article will show you some of the journal indexing agencies and how to do get your journal indexed?

Before telling you’re the details let us understand Journal indexing means.

Indexing a data base of higher scientific journals having good track record of maintaining the ethics and quality in terms of publication. Indexing journals considered to be higher quality in comparison to any non index journals.

Indexing of a journal provides better visibility of the journal with a wider user. Being visible and accessible to larger people will cause better quality papers and results.

Almost every researcher and author search journals using these data bases to find a particular journal. Indexing helps the researcher to find a good journal by suggesting according to his/her needs.

What benefits for Indexed journals?

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Indexed journal gets better visibility Gets quality papers form the authors for publication Journal impact factor get increased Authority and importance of journal gets improved

Journal indexing procedure Most Journal indexing agencies or journal indexing bodies has a procedure and certain rule and regulations to index any journal. If you are a publisher or the authorized person who wants to apply for indexing then you must read the “instructions” and “Regulation” before applying the journal.

Many Journal indexing agencies has certain rules like   

Journal must have e-IISN and P-ISSN Journal must have at least 5 issues or at latest 1-3 years old.

Journal must have at least 60 % foreign members in the editorial board

These are some of the conditions of applying the journal for indexing. There could be many other points you should check.

All Journal indexing agencies has an online journal submission form where the submitter needs to enter the information asked.

The Journal indexing agencies takes 10 to 180 days to evaluate the journal and approve for indexing. After indexing it may send you a confirmation email. Some indexing has a enquiry form to ask about the indexing stages and proceedings. You can also check that.

All Indexing need be renewed after a certain time it may be annually, twice in a two year or once in a five year according to the Indexing body.

Journal indexing agencies list Here is the some of the popular journal indexing agencies where you can check the indexing and apply for it.      

Google scholar Scopus PubMed EBSCO EMBASE DOAJ

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ISI Indexing SCIE SCIMAGOJR OAJI IJIFACTOR Index Copernicus Open J Gate Ulrich's International Periodical Directory BASE

There are many indexing bodies but these are some of the most trusted and popular Journal indexing agencies referred by almost all researchers. SO use these database wisely and check other aspects also to choose the best journal for our research.