Avoid Predatory journals: Publish in Indexed Journals

You have done valuable research and your paper is ready. Now, you are looking for a well-established high-quality journal that will help your research reach a broad range of audiences. So, you would like to publish in an indexed journal.

An indexed journal appears in various databases such as PubMed, Scopus Indexed Journals, Google Scholar, Elsevier, Willy. MEDLINE and the like. Indexing in such databases has the following benefits:

• Increased accessibility
• Increased readership
• Helps you reach a larger group of researchers
• Helps you escape the trap of predatory journals

Indexing in a bibliographic database is an important index of quality for Journals.

Evaluation of journals requires looking into several parameters ranging from the qualitative to the quantitative. These may include the following:

• Basic publishing standards
• Editorial content
• International focus
• Citation Analysis

Non-indexed journals usually have a lower degree of quality.

Among indexed Journals, Scopus Indexed Journals are in huge demand among researchers because SCOPUS takes into account ethical publication standards, editorial content, international criteria, and citation analysis.

To find whether a Journal is Scopus Indexed, you may follow these steps:

1. Go to https://www.scopus.com/sources
2. Enter the journal name in the search box
3. The name of the indexed journal would appear in the search results. A non-indexed journal would show no results.

You may enter a speciality like infectious or communicable disease or cardiology to find related journals indexed in Scopus.

If you research in the field of health and medicine and your paper relates to communicable ailments, you may consider publishing in the Journal of Communicable Diseases (Scopus ID: 22422).

Communicable diseases are contagious or infectious and spread from person to person through air or contact with anything that is contaminated or insect bites. These diseases have been the main killer of children and young adults globally throughout history. They pose significant threats to human health and may sometimes threaten international health security. Asian flu (1918-20) originated in China and took more than 1 million lives.

AIDS (1981 to present-day) has taken more than 35 million lives. Swine flu (2009), ebola (2014-2016), Zika virus (2015 to present day), and currently Covid-19, the list of killer diseases seems to get longer. Therefore, research in this field has become a priority to break the vicious cycle of pandemics and endemics. Besides disease control, research into the indicators of disease is much required. Journal of Communicable Diseases attempts to provide a singular platform to publish research addressing the current issues and upcoming challenges and finding new mechanisms of disease control. This open-access journal provides free access to the full-text articles immediately after publication and thus helps in wider dissemination to a global audience.