Journal finder

Recommend for my manuscript

• Project → Journal finder. Pick a manuscript (title and keywords are filled in) or type a title and a few keywords, optionally restrict to open access, a maximum article-processing charge or similar papers from a given year, then Recommend journals.
• The finder searches OpenAlex for about 150 similar papers and looks at where they were published. Each journal's match (0–100) adds up: where similar papers appear (45), where the works already in your project were published (25), topic overlap with your keywords (20) and impact (10). The reasons are spelled out on every card.
• Cards show articles indexed, citations, h-index, two-year mean citedness, APC, access (subscription, open access, DOAJ-listed) and topics, with links to the journal site and its OpenAlex record.

Search

Search by journal name or topic when you already have candidates in mind; the same cards, metrics and actions apply.

Transparency signals

• Instead of a blacklist, the finder lists verifiable facts: open access without a DOAJ listing, very small output, an unusually high APC, a low h-index for the journal's size, a generic all-encompassing title, no ISSN. DOAJ listing, a high h-index and a large output count in a journal's favour.
• The caution level (none, minor, check carefully, serious) summarises those facts. It is a prompt to look — at the editorial board, the peer-review statement and your library's guidance — never a verdict.

Compare and add as target

• Compare up to four journals side by side (publisher, articles, citations, h-index, citedness, access, APC, cautions).
• Add as target creates a submission target under Submissions with the journal's name, ISSN and homepage; add the journal's limits and reference style there, and the pre-flight and the formatter use them.