Wiley's tips on choosing the right journal in which to publish
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Postgraduate students are encouraged to publish in peer-reviewed journals which are approved by the DHET (Department of Higher Education and Training). There are two categories of approved journals - those published in South Africa and those published internationally which appear on the Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index list.
UCT's Research Support Hub publishes an updated DHET accredited journals list every year. Visit their site to download it.
Some publishers have made databases available that allow you to enter keywords about your research in order to find a suitable journal in which to publish:
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) indexes "high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals".
Use the box below to search the directory for an open access journal:
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Authors may submit a revised version of an article to bioRxiv at any time and can update the bioRxiv record with a link to a version of an article that has been published in a journal. Once posted on bioRxiv, articles are citable and therefore cannot be removed.