The tool provides a match score (the bar in the left margin) for each of the journal matches. You can see the results from my search below. You can see below that I’ve taken the manuscript title and abstract and pasted them into the search fields. In the screenshots below, I used the (already published) journal article summarized in last week’s R&E Search for Evidence blog post to better illustrate how the tool works.

Not all 10 resulting journal matches for each topic were perfect, but every search returned solid journal options that I would want to explore further. I tested different manuscript titles and abstracts across several different disciplines. Though, English language journals still dominate the collection. The database includes journals published in over 45 languages. Importantly for those of us working in the development sector, the database has expanded in recent years beyond publishers located in North America and Europe to include publishers from all parts of the world. One advantage of the tool is that it accesses citations from the Web of Science Core Collection, which indexes over 20,000 peer-reviewed journals covering over 250 science, social sciences, and humanities disciplines. If this is you, I suggest you start with a basic title and abstract to get things moving – and update them later. Often researchers like to create their manuscript title and abstract last since it can be specific to the selected journal. This search process may feel backwards for some of you. The results include the latest Journal Citation Reports (JCR) impact factor for each journal (though that’s not relevant for everyone: Casadevall, et al., 2016).

You can also add your reference list to improve the accuracy of your results.Īsk the tool to “find journals” and it produces a list of 10 potential journal matches. How to use Manuscript MatcherĪfter purchasing access to the Manuscript Matcher tool, you simply paste the title and abstract of your manuscript into the appropriate fields. Could Manuscript Matcher be useful for me and my colleagues? I made a point to find out.

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