Where do I publish? Being strategic with your publications 

A publication's reliability, integrity and quality needs to be considered when identifying where to publish. Evaluate publications in terms of the following attributes:

• peer review
• citation analysis indicated by impact factor
• international editorial board
• international circulation
• international author base
• coverage by an abstracting indexing service

Ali, S. (1996) Library Review, Vol 45, no.1, p41

Research, which contributes to society's body of knowledge, is communicated in a variety of ways. Scholarly communication through peer reviewed material is a necessity. "The peer review and evaluation system is utilised to protect, maintain, and raise the quality of scholarly material published in serials [journals]. Publications subject to the refereed process are assumed, then, to contain higher quality content than those that aren't." (Ulrich's International Periodical Directory).

Points to consider in addition to the peer review process are identifying high impact journals, which database indexes the publication and publication circulation.

Presenting at conferences is a valuable way to publicly discuss and obtain feedback on your research.