I wonder how I can easily get my hands on the best journals in my field without having to go through the bad ones. Is it only by checking the articles that I read in my research? Is there another way to search for the key ones?
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I wonder how I can easily get my hands on the best journals in my field without having to go through the bad ones. Is it only by checking the articles that I read in my research? Is there another way to search for the key ones?
This is a very important question as there are many students struggle who struggle to choose the right information sources for their academic research. For a ton of students, anything from the internet is considered a reliable information source, and that is not always true. As you are undertaking academic research, your supervisor is interested in seeing you providing reliable information from a credible source. That thereby means you have to question whether an information source you have, be it from the internet or available to you physically, is credible. Credible information is that which has been proved by peer-review scholarly panel. That is, the information from such a source has undergone thorough discussions by different experts in the field and has been given a pass.
To access a good academic material, you can make your internet search discreet.
The best way to get a good scholarly source – make sure it is peer reviewed or provided by a reliable source such as the government. To access such content, you can google something like “peer reviewed journal articles on causes of global warming”. That is always a good way to start. Don’t use blogs and random websites as your information sources, unless your instructor asks you.
Have it in mind that knowledge changes with time as what was believed to be true centuries ago may now have false meanings. That implies that you have to use sources that are up-to-date, preferably ones published within the last three to five years. Springer has a website to find relevant Springer Journals. All Springer journals are respectable. Other good publishers are Elsevier and Taylor & Francis. Check the ISI list of respectable journals. Be very wary of the number of disreputable journals that are around. Publish in a Beall’s list journal and you might not have bothered. Avoid OMICS journals like the plague.