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Computer Science: Where to publish

Why this is important

Where you publish will affect your success as an author and ultimately affect your career. Making the “right” choice about where you publish can potentially increase readership, increase citations, diminish publication lag, determine government subsidy and influence performance evaluation. For more detailed information, see our library guide Where to publish your research article.

Publishers' journal finder

Some publishers have journal finder features that help you to locate the most pertinent journal by entering your manuscript title, abstract or keywords.

Elsevier (Scopus) Journal Finder

Sage Journal Recommender

Taylor & Francis Journal Suggester

Web of Science Manuscript Matcher (needs a free Clarivate account)

Wiley Journal Finder

Accredited journals

In South Africa, only articles published in "accredited journals" are considered for subsidy. Journals included in the lists below will be taken into account for government subsidy and in terms of NRF evaluation.

Please consult the lists of accredited journals on the Division for Research Development's webpage. 

Open Access publishing

What is Open Access?

By 'open access' to the literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." - Budapest Open Access Initiative 

Open Access at Stellenbosch University

The Library and Information Service has signed agreements with a number of publishers according to which SU researchers can publish open access (OA) with these publishers at a discount, and in some cases to even publish OA without paying any article processing charge (APC).