Journal

How it is used

Researchers publish in, submit to or target a journal. Journals are indexed in databases such as Web of Science and Scopus and compared with metrics such as the impact factor. Volume, issue and page numbers appear in citations.

Example sentences

1. We plan to submit the paper to a journal in applied linguistics.

2. This journal publishes four issues a year and is indexed in Scopus.

Common collocations

• academic journal
• peer-reviewed journal
• publish in a journal
• journal article
• top-tier journal

Related terms

• peer reviewThe process in which experts in the same field evaluate a manuscript or grant proposal before it is accepted, revised or rejected.
• paperAn academic article, either published in a journal or presented at a conference; researchers use it as the everyday word for their written studies.
• impact factorA yearly measure of how often articles in a journal are cited on average, based on citations in one year to items published in the two previous years.
• submitTo formally send a piece of work, such as an article, thesis, abstract or application, to the people who will judge it.
• open accessA way of publishing in which research articles are free online for anyone to read, download and often reuse, without a subscription.

More terms: Peer Review and Publishing

• manuscript
• reviewer
• revise and resubmit
• desk rejection
• corresponding author
• publish or perish
• editor
• co-author
• cover letter
• major revision
• first author
• response to reviewers