It is common among academic professionals to check listing/ranking of academic journals in recognized journal ranking/quality lists before submitting their articles to an academic journal. Professional research evaluation committees also frequently use such quality journal lists. Although, many scholars consider indexing/abstracting databases like SSCI, SCI, Scopus, Inspec, MEDLINE etc. but this article will focus on the academic journal quality/ranking lists developed by various countries/institutions. I will only provide journal quality lists/rankings developed by not-for-profit organizations because products developed by for-profit companies always reflect some degree of bias. Therefore, I will exclude the lists/rankings like Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Journal Ranking, Cabell’s Journals list, SCImago journal ranking (although it is free but is based on for-profit database Scopus) etc.
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