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Check the following things of an online or print journal before submitting your papers:

1) The journal face/ out look must be mature, not childish.
2) Observe the editorial board, look is it mentioned in a formal way or irregular odd way. Search and contact few of editorial board members and ask about the journal.
3) Look that journal’s policies regarding major issues and conflicts are mentioned.
4) Journal’s scope should not be so broad, e.g. it could cover two linked discipline but should not cover odd ones.
5) Send your manuscript to journal and observe their review process, if they accept as it is, than journal is problematic.
6) Please note that good journals do not chase indexing/ abstracting agencies but these agencies chase the journal to become part of their network.
7) Open access is a good model, most of the people in 2nd and 3rd world countries do not afford huge library subscriptions. Open access model give them chance to contribute in literature and research. Look at the model of journal, is it closer to greed or passion.
8) Look at the address of print journals, is it ok? However, online journals are global in nature.
9) Check that the journal is indexed/ listed in DOAJ, SCOPUS, ABI/ INFORM OR Reuters, most of the wrong journals are strained out in their selection criteria.
10) The journal is charging reasonable i.e. not as low as 50$ or not as high as 600$.


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