What the Journal Index is
The Journal Index helps you find the right journal without leaving Folio or paying for a rankings site. It is built on open data from OpenAlex, including whether a journal is indexed in DOAJ, so it uses open metrics only and never the licensed Impact Factor. It will never label a journal "predatory"; instead it shows you verifiable signals (DOAJ indexing, ISSN, real article history) and lets you judge.
Open Journals from the sidebar to start.
Browsing and searching
Search any journal by name. When you are signed in, the landing page fills with journals already in your library; otherwise it shows widely cited journals to explore. Each card shows the publisher, fields, key metrics, and open-access status, plus an "in your library" badge when it is one you already use.
A journal's briefing page
Click any journal for a one-page briefing:
- Metrics: works, citations, h-index, and a 2-year citation average (all open metrics).
- Trust and access: DOAJ indexing, open-access status, and the article fee when listed.
- Fields, ISSN, and homepage.
- Recent articles: a clean feed of real research. Click one to open a preview with its abstract, then Add to library in a click (the abstract comes along), or open it at the publisher.
- Related journals: others strongest in the same field.
- Ask about this journal, and a link to follow it in Radar.
For select journals, the page also has a verified formatting guide for submission, and can apply the journal's citation style to your draft. Signed in, a For you block shows how much of the journal is already in your library and whether it matches your field.
Where to submit: the scout
From Journals → Have a draft? (or Where to submit? in the editor's Export menu and command palette), pick a draft and the scout ranks journals that fit it. It combines three signals and shows the reasoning for each:
- Journals you already cite.
- Journals publishing work like your draft: matched against the literature, so it finds fits you may not have cited yet.
- Your field of study.
It works even if your draft has no citations yet: a title and a few sentences are enough.
Closest to your draft
On any journal page, choose one of your drafts and Folio ranks that journal's recent articles by how closely they match your writing. It is a fast way to gut-check whether your work belongs in that venue.
A note on what this is, and isn't
This is a starting point built from open data, not a verdict. Always check a journal's own aims, scope, and submission guidelines before you submit.