Method and maintenance
Inspect every source, field, limitation, and retention boundary.
Journal Fit Predictor v2.0, corpus build 2026-04-27. Method reviewed September 22, 2026. Corrections: erik@manusights.com.
Read the methodologyFree journal finder
Journal Fit Predictor: a free journal finder for any publisher
Paste your title and abstract and this free journal finder matches it against 1,321 journals and conferences across publishers, not one publisher's list. You get up to five venues. Each result shows corpus evidence, not an acceptance forecast.
Free, no account required. Export a decision record or CSV after the run.
Method and corpus coverageDecision workflow
The shortlist starts the research. It does not finish it.
The corpus evidence describes observed publication topics. It is not the publisher's official aims and scope, and policies can change after the corpus build.
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Official scope
Read the current aims and scope on the publisher or society website.
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Recent evidence
Open several recent articles that resemble your study in topic and article type.
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Submission rules
Verify article type, length, fees, access model, indexing, and data policies.
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Audience fit
Ask whether the researchers who should use the work actually read this venue.
Open corpus
Audit the exact venue set.
Download the same public fields used by the live shortlist. Proprietary or potentially misleading metric fields are excluded from these exports.
Journals1,291
Conferences30
Live edition2026.04.27-live2
Version distinction: the citable Zenodo archive at DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19831122 contains 1,030 venues. It does not represent this live 1,321-venue build. Cite the live tool and edition above when describing current results.
Limits
Know what has not been validated.
- No outcome benchmark: Manusights has not validated the ordering against editor judgments, submission outcomes, or prospective author decisions.
- No acceptance prediction: the tool does not assess publishability, novelty, rigor, prestige, or acceptance probability.
- Finite coverage: a relevant venue may be absent. Coverage is strongest where OpenAlex supplies substantial publication histories.
- Observed topics, not official policy: corpus descriptions are synthesized from publication topics and can lag a journal's current editorial scope.
- Abstract-only: the tool cannot inspect methods, figures, reporting quality, or the full argument.
FAQ
Questions people ask before using it
- Is the Journal Fit Predictor free?
- Yes. No signup or payment is required. The tool allows two shortlist runs per browser per day, and every result can be copied, exported as CSV, or shared.
- Is this a journal finder or journal suggester?
- Yes. Paste a title and abstract and it suggests up to five journals or conferences from a disclosed cross-publisher corpus, with the corpus passage behind each suggestion. It matches topic and does not predict acceptance.
- How does the Journal Fit Predictor differ from Elsevier or Springer journal finders?
- Publisher journal finders search one publisher portfolio. The Journal Fit Predictor searches a disclosed cross-publisher corpus and returns the exact corpus excerpt used to support every candidate. Publisher finders remain useful for confirming current policies inside their own portfolios.
- Does the Journal Fit Predictor predict acceptance?
- No. The Journal Fit Predictor orders candidates from topic overlap in its corpus. Manusights has not validated that ordering against editor judgments or submission outcomes. The result is a research starting set, not an acceptance probability, quality score, or editorial verdict.
- Is my abstract stored or used to train AI?
- The title and abstract are sent to the model provider for processing and are not copied into saved run history or operational email. A content hash and computed result may be cached for up to seven days. Browser session storage keeps the submitted text so the current user can restore the result in that tab.
- Can I cite the Journal Fit Predictor in my methods section?
- Cite the live tool as Manusights. (2026). Journal Fit Predictor (version 2.0, corpus edition 2026.04.27-live2). https://manusights.com/tools/journal-fit. The Zenodo DOI points to an older 1030-venue archive and should not be cited as the current live corpus.
Independent cross-checks
Compare before you commit.
For biomedical literature, compare with JANE. For open-access venues, compare with B!SON. Publisher finders are useful when you already want to remain inside one portfolio.
Open the journal-selection guide