What is journal scoping?
At VISFO, journal scoping is a strategic process used to identify the most suitable academic journal for publishing research. Our comprehensive, rational approach goes beyond traditional metrics like journal impact factor, allowing researchers to effectively navigate the publishing landscape and ensure their work is published in a journal that aligns with their target audience, research focus and publication objectives.
What does journal scoping encompass?
Bibliometric analysis
- Quantifies the relative strength of scientific journals within a specific research indication.
Clustering analysis
- Enables users to identify journals with similar characteristics and gauge their suitability for publication based on specific criteria.
Topic analysis
- Allows users to pinpoint journals that specialize in specific research areas, ensuring alignment with publication objectives.
Our approach also includes consideration of newer journals — journals that are relatively young and may not have a long publication history — ensuring equitable analysis of both established and emerging journals, and mitigating bias towards long-established journals.
Why is journal scoping important?
Rational journal scoping ultimately allows researchers to find the most appropriate journal for their work, ensuring that findings reach stakeholders most likely to benefit from it, discuss it and share it.
Journal scoping is a core component of VISFO’s Helix service offering. Click here to find out more.