Selection Criteria

We consider the following for including a publication into our database:

• The publication must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control by qualified specialists to be included.
• The publication should report primary results of research or overviews of research results to a scholarly community.
• The publication is of a scholarly content; all scientific and scholarly subjects are covered by the database.
• The publication exhibits excellence in content.
• The target group should be primarily researchers.
• The publication is not commercial in nature.
• A substantive part of the publication should consist of research papers. All content or most of it should be available in full text.
• All languages are eligible.
• The publication should have an ISSN.
• The publication should appear at regular intervals, generally more frequently than annually.

The final decision for inclusion will remain the right of Academic Journals Database and its selection committee.