Where to Publish?

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A database of for-profit and non-profit journals in biology, annotated by publisher type, business model, APC, Scimago rank, and partnership with Peer Community In (PCI).

Academic publishing is a market worth roughly €7.6 billion per year, with profit margins of 30–40% captured largely by a handful of for-profit publishers. Article processing charges (APCs) for open access publishing can reach €9,500 per paper, creating a system where public research funds are transferred to private publishers under the banner of open access.

WhereToPublish? was built to make the landscape navigable: it is a filterable database of biology journals annotated by field, publisher type (non-profit, for-profit, or university press), business model (diamond open access, gold open access, hybrid, or subscription), APC, Scimago rank, and partnership with Peer Community In (PCI).

The project is collaborative: new journals and corrections can be submitted via a Google Form, and the full data is openly available. The live site is at WhereToPublish.github.io, with documentation and contribution guidelines on the wiki.

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Dr. Alex Johnson (he/him)
Senior AI Research Scientist
Alex Johnson is a Senior AI Research Scientist at Meta AI. His research has been published in top conferences like NeurIPS and ICML, with over 10,000 citations. Alex is passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI while ensuring ethical development.