EDANZ JOURNAL SELECTOR HELPS AUTHORS OVERCOME PUBLICATION BARRIERS

A free tool for authors to match their manuscript to suitable journals

Revolutionizing journal selection

• Free help for authors in choosing their target journal

• 18,000+ journals indexed

• An online platform dedicated to helping scientists

publish their research

• State-of-the-art, patented algorithms from Parity

Computing

Edanz Group - the premier provider of language

editing for the worldwide scientific community,

and the only editing service fully localized in China

and Japan

Parity Computing – the leading supplier of

powerful data mining, analytics, and decision-

support systems to scientific publishers

The worldwide author community now has a dynamic new way to select

the most appropriate journal in which to publish. As part of its mission to

help scientists communicate their research globally, Edanz has launched

the free-to-use Journal Selector as part of its Journal Advisor platform.

Journal Selector, which indexes over 18,000 journals, uses state of the art

semantic technology to match an author’s research to journals that

publish articles on similar topics.

The Journal Selector is freely available here:

www.edanzediting.com/journal_advisor

The Edanz Journal Advisor provides authors, especially non-native English

speakers, with tools and services to help them overcome barriers to

publication success. It also includes guides and videos that inform

authors about the publication process.

What’s new? Who’s who?

Fukuoka, Japan and Beijing, China, 11 June 2012

english editing for scientists

The Edanz Journal Selector is easy to use and delivers results immediatelyJournal Selector

1. Insert English sample text

Author’s abstract, short description, key phrases, or abstract from similar paper

2. Filter and refine

How to use it 3. Narrow your options

Match analysis

Basic journal information

4. Visit journal websites

Using Journal Selector, authors enter a brief description

of their research. Users can input a whole abstract, rather

than just the few terms or phrases that current academic

and science search tools allow. Journal Selector then

matches the author’s research to journals that are

publishing articles on similar topics. After selecting a

journal, authors can then use Edanz educational

resources and services to improve the language of their

manuscript, write a cover letter, and prepare for

submission and peer review.

Revise sample text to refine results

Publication frequency

Impact Factor

Similar articles published by the journal

Edanz Group Ltd. (www.edanzediting.com), established in Japan in 1995 and China in 2006, provides English language editing and related services for the worldwide scientific community. Edanz, the exclusive worldwide English editing partner of publishers Springer, BioMed Central and the American Institute of Physics, helps authors reach their publication goals by raising the language quality of manuscripts to the standard needed for acceptance. Edanz team of over 350 native English-speaking editorsincludes experts covering all scientific areas. As the only international editing service fully localized in China and Japan, Edanz understands the challenges faced by non-native English speaking scientists in achieving publication success.

Parity (www.paritycomputing.com.) provides powerful data mining, analytics, and decision-support systems to publishers and enterprises in the science, technology, and medical (STM) industry. Additionally, Parity's Clinical Vigilance™ product line monitors disparate healthcare data sources to create better patient outcomes by providing evidence-based clinical decision support.

About Edanz

About Parity Computing

Benjamin Shaw - Global and China Director, Edanz Group

bshaw@edanzgroup.com +86-10-6528-2882

www.edanzediting.com/about_EJA

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Powerful tool to overcome the barrier of selecting a suitable journal

Cutting-edge semantic technology

China Director, “Journal Selector provides the worldwide author community with a powerful new tool that will save time and increase chances of publication success. It will also benefit journal editors, who currently receive large numbers of submissions unsuited for publication in their journal.”

Respondents

Primary difficulty during manuscript preparation

Response

Author Challenges Survey on ScienceNet.cn

english editing for scientists

The Journal Selector is powered by patented semantic technology developed by Parity Computing of San Diego, USA. “We are very excited that Edanz has selected Parity Computing’s Semantic Profiling Engine™ to power the Edanz Journal Advisor platform to enrich the author’s journal submission process”, said Steve Nathan, CEO and President of Parity Computing, Inc.

This multifunctional tool has a range of applications that promise to revolutionize how authors select an appropriate journal and how they prepare to communicate their research.

“Through our work with scientific authors, particularly inChina and Japan, we have found that one of their greatestdifficulties is knowing which journal to submit to. TheEdanz Journal Selector, the first of several phases for theEdanz Journal Advisor platform, helps them overcome thisbarrier” states Benjamin Shaw, Edanz Group’s Global and