Resources for Editors of Scholarly Journals: Increasing Journal Visibility and Impact

Scholars want to publish in journals that can increase the visibility and impact of their research.  The resources below offer ways to enhance the visibility of a journal at the article level and beyond.

• Article-level Metrics Primer (pdf)
  Providing article-level metrics can increase the visibility of the articles published in a journal.  The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has a good primer on article-level metrics that might be helpful in conversations with publishers.

• Impact and Bibliometrics: Journal Impact
  This guide from the University of Kansas is primarily aimed at authors, but has some good information for journal editors and advisory boards about the factors that scholars will be looking for in a journal that will increase their visibility.

• Journal Make-Over: Practical Steps to Better Journals (webinar)
  This webinar from Bepress outlines steps that can be taken to improve any journal.   For more information, here are some very good notes taken by someone attending the webinar.