Online Journal Quality and Standards

Journal Evaluation Criteria | Review, Editorial and Publication

1. Number of citations (NC)

• Average number of citations to recent articles published in a journal

2. Publisher and editorial requirement (PEP)

• Editorial board members name and contact details, and international excellence of editorial board
• Publisher physical address and sufficient contact details (contact form, email, phone, fax etc.)
• ISSN (print/online/both) and frequency of publication - a key eligibility parameter 
• Title page with title, ISSN, frequency and volume/issue and month/year
• Brief guidelines for author about manuscript preparation and submission
• Uniformity and promise of published articles
• Number of volume and issue published in a year
• Journal appearance and regularity of article publication
• Age of a journal

​3. Manuscript quality parameter (MQP)

• Originality of manuscript contents
• Style, size & layout and content uniformity of published articles
• Grammatical standards and spelling
• Table, figures and reference citation in body text 
• PDF and full text view, print and download options
• Duplicate contents in published article
• Paragraph, heading, numbering uniformity
• Hyperlink to references or outbound linking
• Bibliographic reference, i.e., citation style

 4. Publication/Article quality parameter (PQP)

• Scientific merits of articles
• Review and publication policy, and publication ethics
• Article publication consistency and regularity - a key parameter 
• Journal indexing, listing and bibliographic status
• Article originality: Plagiarism detected, impact factor reduced greatly or none - key parameter
• Table and figure/diagram processing and quality presentation 
• Relevance of published article according to aim and scope of a journal
• Excellence of published articles

5. Standards and technical parameter (STP)

• DOI (Digital Object Identification Number)
• Journal archive accessibility and quality
• Legal ownership of published contents and or copyright transfer
• Content visibility and open access
• Online submission and review standards
• Online payment standards 
• Website usability and accessibility to author, visitor, indexing and bibliographic concern 
• Metadata information related to published articles
• Degree of acceptance and popularity of journal
• Management standards of journal governance
• Standards of terms of use and privacy policy
• Nature of licence used by publisher