Botany & Zoology: Where to publish my article

Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency

How to generate research impact from Twitter and LinkedIn

• Click here for a complete list of the 2021 DHET accredited journals
• DHET Research Output Policy
• Journal Citation Reports - a Clarivate Analytics Web of Science journal impact factor resource to evaluate and compare journals
• Scopus CiteScore - a metric to track journal performances and impact
• Elsevier Journal Finder helps you find journals that could be best suited for publishing your article
• Springer journal suggestor helps you identifying journals for your article
• How to publish - a Springer step by step guide
• Open Access funding at Stellenbosch University

* Predatory Journals and Conferences

NRF Statement on Predatory Journals & Deceptive Publishers

• The  Directory of Open Access Journals lists  high quality and trusted Open Access journals. If the OA journal is not listed here, please consider it as a possibly questionable journal title

• Getting the low down on predatory publishing by Prof John Measey

•  Check for a predatory journal

• Visit Prof DH Kaye's  Flaky Academic Journals OR Flaky Academic Conferences 

• The extent of South African authored articles in predatory journals by Johann Mouton and Astrid Valentine

• Shamseer's article  identifies 13 evidence-based characteristics by which predatory journals may potentially by distinguished

• Reference this list to check if a chosen open access journal is trusted

• Scopus Discontinued List  Lists journal titles for which indexing has been discontinued

• Cost-benefit Assessment of Congresses, Meetings or Symposia, and Selection Criteria to Determine if They are Predatory

• Flaky Academic Conferences

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