Think.Check.Submit – a checklist for choosing trusted journals

“Sharing research results with the world is key to the progress of your discipline and career. But with so many publications, how can you be sure you can trust a particular journal? ” ( www.thinkchecksubmit.org )

The THINK.CHECK.SUBMIT campaign is designed to guide journal authors and prospective journal authors on the selection of trusted publishers and journals for submission of their manuscripts. The goal is to encourage awareness, to help ensure that authors submit to bona fide journals that are trusted and proven to have a strong reputation, applying best practice in their peer review processes, since this in turn will uphold and enhance the author’s reputation, and that of his/her institution.

Use the THINK.CHECK.SUBMIT checklist for your chosen journal to check if it is trusted.

1. Do you or your colleagues know the journal?

2. Is the journal clear about the type of peer review that it uses?

3. Can you easily identify and contact the publisher?

4. Is the publisher a member of a recognized industry initiative?

THINK.CHECK.SUBMIT – a joint effort by stakeholders across the academic publishing industry, including scholarly, university and institutional library associations LIBER, SPARC and UKSG, institutions INASP and ISSN, publishers BioMed Central, Springer Nature and Ubiquity Press, publisher associations OASPA, ALPSP and STM, and the Directory of Open Access Journals. The campaign is fully endorsed by the Australian Publishers Association.