Choosing a venue

  • Scimago Journal Rankings: A measure of the prestige of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the prestige of the journals where the citations come from.
  • Journal/Author Name Estimator: Compare your document to millions of documents in PubMed to find the best matching journals, authors or articles.

Access issues

  • Sherpa: Open Access compliance and Transitional Agreement look-up tools.
  • Choose a license: An open source license protects contributors and users. Businesses and savvy developers won’t touch a project without this protection.

Tracking citations

  • Altmetric: A data science company that tracks where published research is mentioned online, and provides tools and services to monitor this activity.