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Journal Finder

Find journals whose published articles are closest to your manuscript, with facts from official sources. Beta · Open the tool

What it does

Journal Finder suggests ten journals for a manuscript, based on how close each journal’s published articles are to your title and abstract. For each journal it shows what official sources record: indexes, open-access model, publication fees and recent activity, each with its source and date. It is for researchers choosing where to submit, in any field.

How to use it

  1. Paste the English title and abstract of your manuscript.
  2. Review the ten suggestions and open the journal cards that interest you.
  3. Check the journal’s own website (aims and scope, author guidelines, fees) before you submit.

Features

  • Ten suggestions ranked only by how close each journal’s articles are to your text. Indexing does not change the order.
  • A card for each journal: indexes (MEDLINE, PMC, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, CINAHL, APA PsycInfo, DOAJ), topics, the cost for you, the time to publication the journal states, and its access model. A page for each journal gives the details with their sources, and a checklist to use before you submit.
  • Every item shows its source and date; “Not recorded” never means “no”.
  • Fees from the publisher’s own price list, with a link to the publisher’s page.
  • Cost for your country and institution: what each publisher’s waiver policy, or an open-access agreement, means for your choice, with source and date.
  • Compare 2 to 4 journals side by side.
  • Filters by index, journal type, cost, publisher, country and stated speed, and a glossary of every term on the cards.
  • A flag next to every item to report an error.
  • English, Arabic and Persian interface.

Why use it

It covers journals from all publishers, not just one. It shows only documented facts, with their sources, instead of scores or labels. Its accuracy was tested in studies registered before they were run.

How it was built and tested

The tool compares your text with 4.2 million articles in 37,145 journals, combining a matching engine with a standard text-matching method (BM25). In a pre-registered test on 5,008 new articles, the journal that actually published the article was among the ten suggestions for 29.9% (95% CI 28.6–31.2); many other suggestions were also suitable. How Journal Finder was built and tested

Limits

  • Persian and Arabic abstracts do not work well yet; use an English abstract.
  • Regional journals are found less often, and 1,786 journals, mostly regional, have no articles in our data yet.
  • Sources can be out of date; each item shows its date.

Your data

Data profile A: processed only, not stored. Your title and abstract are used only to find your suggestions and are then discarded. Your language, the country and institution you choose for costs, and the guide setting are kept only in your own browser and are never sent to us; the cost for your country is worked out in your browser. The suggestions of your last search and the journals you tick for comparison, never your title or abstract, are kept in this browser tab until you close it, so that the browser’s Back button keeps them. See our Privacy Policy.

Notes for this tool

These notes apply together with our Terms of Use.

  • No quality labels. Journal Finder does not rate, rank or judge journals, attaches no negative labels, and shows no impact factors, quartiles or other paid metrics.
  • Indexes. An index badge only states that a journal appears on that index’s official list on the date shown. Index names are trademarks of their owners; Journal Finder is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
  • Publishers’ prices. Fees from a publisher’s price list show the publisher, the date of the list and a link to the publisher’s page; the list itself is not republished. Confirm the fee before you submit. A publisher that does not want its amounts shown can write to info@mrresearcher.com, and we will remove them.
  • Cost for your country or institution. It is worked out from publishers’ published waiver policies and from open-access agreements, which often have yearly limits and conditions. It is not an offer or a guarantee: your library or the publisher confirms whether your article qualifies.

Sources

DOAJ and OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref, the U.S. National Library of Medicine, official index lists, publishers’ price lists and national journal lists. Full list on the How it was built page.

Version

Beta · release R-2026-10-22-01 · site 1.8a.4 · October 2026