Academics and graduate studies students throughout the world are required to conduct research and publish its outcome in peer-reviewed journals which seems to be a daunting task for the majority of the researchers in general and the novice ones in particular; a matter of paramount importance which makes the necessity of knowing some criteria for selecting the right journals inevitable. The aims of the present workshop are thus threefold. It first aims at introducing the internationally renowned scientometric indexes and science-indexing databases such as Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI, and ESCI), Scopus, ERIC, EBSCO, etc. Secondly, it tries to offer some hands-on techniques and criteria on how to select the right Applied Linguistics journals to publish in. Finally, some guidelines on what to include in a research paper to make it appealing to the journal editors and reviewers and to publish successfully and effectively will be presented. Attempts will specifically be made in the workshop to present a fully-fledged pack of criteria and a comprehensive framework for the scholarly journal selection processes including journal acceptance rate, journal visibility, reputation and circulation, timely publication, ‘manuscript-journal fit’ and publication ethics observance. The workshop might prove fruitful for specifically such novice researchers as graduate studies students who sense a need to improve their scholarly journal selection and publication expertise to get more easily accepted by their peers in the discourse community.
