Finding the right journal usually means tab-hopping between ranking sites, half of them paywalled. The Journal Index brings it into your workspace — built entirely on open data, and personalized to the work you are actually writing.
Browse and search journals
Open Journals in the top navigation. Search any journal by name, or start from the curated set we surface for you. Signed in, the landing fills with the journals already in your library; otherwise you get the most-cited journals to explore.
A one-page briefing for any journal
Every journal gets a single, readable page: scope and fields, open-access and DOAJ status, article-processing charge, and open metrics (works, citations, h-index, a 2-year citation average). We use open data only — never the licensed Impact Factor — and we never label a journal "predatory."
- Recent articles — a clean feed of real research (front-matter, mastheads, and indexes are filtered out), each one openable in a preview drawer with the abstract and a one-click Add to library.
- Related journals — others strongest in the same field.
Personalized for you
Signed in, each journal page adds a For you block: how many sources from this journal are already in your library, and whether it matches your field of study. Search results carry an "in your library" badge too.
Where to submit — the journal scout
Pick one of your drafts and the scout ranks journals that fit it, with the reasons shown in plain language:
- Journals you already cite — usually your strongest targets.
- Journals publishing work like yours — found by matching your draft against the literature, so it surfaces good fits you do not yet cite.
- Your field.
It works even before you have added a single citation. Reach it from Journals → "Have a draft?", or from inside the editor (the Export menu and the command palette).
Closest to your draft
On any journal page, choose a draft and Folio ranks that journal's recent articles by how closely they match your writing — a quick read on whether your work belongs there.
The Journal Index is available to everyone; the personalized parts (library overlap, the scout, draft similarity) just need a free account.
Also in this release — bulk Word import, verified
Importing a .docx got two upgrades. You can now import many Word documents at once — drop a batch and Folio creates one document per file. And every reference is now held to a zero-silent-error standard: only citations verified against CrossRef or OpenAlex are added by default; anything unverifiable is flagged for you to confirm, so a mis-parsed reference never lands in your library on its own. See Bringing your research into Folio.