Newsletter 22/ 03.06.2025
NEW! Nature Masterclasses On-Demand course “Choosing the Best Journal for Your Paper”
Dear Doctoral Candidates,
Are you looking for a way to identify the best journal for your research? With thousands of journals available and some disreputable ones to avoid, selecting the best one to showcase your hard-earned results can be challenging but crucial. But what does ‘best’ mean? Readership, quality, prestige, and publication cost are key factors. It’s also important not to overlook factors like article access and editorial services. The new Nature Masterclasses On-Demand course “Choosing the Best Journal for Your Paper” tackles these topics and more.
In this course, you will learn a step-by-step process for choosing the most appropriate scholarly journals to target for your paper, and how to prioritise which journal to submit your paper to first. If you would like to preview this course, you can try a free sample.
What you'll learn
- Know why and when you should start searching for the best journals
- Choose the most appropriate type of journal based on the content of your paper
- Identify journals that reach your target audience
- Evaluate other factors when choosing your journal and how to interpret them, including journal quality, aims and scope, publishing model, cost of publication and additional services offered
- Choose which journal to submit to first
- Utilise pre-submission enquiries to check if a journal is the best fit.
More information and access to this course is available online: https://masterclasses.nature.com/choosing-your-journal/50683652
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Please find all details about the course contents and how to get access to them by clicking on the course you are interested in
Registration
- Through the Graduate Academy’s subscription, you have access to all Nature Masterclasses online courses.
- To start using a course, simply register on the Nature Masterclasses website: https://masterclasses.nature.com/register
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(After registration, you can use the course with any internet connection because the website will remember our institutional internet connection for 6 months).
Best wishes,
The Team of the Seminar Program
Contact:
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