# journal123

> Global journal navigation and submission decision tool. One journal page answers three questions: what the journal publishes, what it costs and how long it takes, and how to submit.

## What this site provides

- Journal directory with ISSN-L as the primary key (169,837 titles, data version 2026.11)
- Submission entry points, article processing charges, and submission-to-publication time where the publisher reports them
- Subject classification, open-access status, and per-journal details such as publisher, country and founding year
- Lists, filters, three-way comparison, and curated collections

## What this site does not do

- It does not publish a single composite score or a journal ranking of its own
- It does not use proprietary journal evaluation data
- Citation figures are raw OpenAlex fields and are not a journal rating

## Data sources

- OpenAlex (CC0): bibliographic metadata, citation counts, subject topics
- DOAJ (CC0): open-access status, fees, submission links, review timelines

## Key pages

- https://journal123.com/en/journals
- https://journal123.com/en/metrics
- https://journal123.com/en/compare
- https://journal123.com/en/collections

## How to read the numbers

https://journal123.com/en/metrics explains what each field measures and what it does not. Values are not comparable across subjects; percentiles are shown within the same subject.