Research Guides: Data Visualization: Finding a Home

Finding a Home for Your Data

Publishing and sharing your data visualization can be done in many ways.

Many visualizations are part of a larger academic article, but sometimes they are standalone projects. Some visualizations are more suited to popular or news media, or even to share on social media. In these cases you need to think about a platform. Will your visualization be print or online, static or interactive?

Determine ahead of time where the visualization will be published and what visualization type best suits that platform.

Review Tips and Common Mistakes when creating data visualizations before you decide.

Some popular (free) tools to create and share visualizations are listed here, but many other are available.

Tableau Public
Tableau Public can help you visualize, publish and share data. You can publish visualizations to embed on a website, blog, or social media or share in Tableau Public's Activity feed.
ArcGIS StoryMaps
"Create inspiring, immersive stories by combining text, interactive maps, and other multimedia content. Publish and share your story with your organization or everyone around the world."
Google Data Studio
Import and visualize your data from spreadsheets, Google Analytics, and other data sources to create charts, graphs, dashboards and other visualizations.

Data Visualization Journals

Nightingale
The Journal of the Data Visualization Society with examples, articles, and awards and challenges where you can share your data visualizations.
Information Visualization
"This journal is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing articles on fundamental research and applications of information visualization. The journal acts as a dedicated forum for the theories, methodologies, techniques and evaluations of information visualization and its applications." From SAGE Publications Journal Description
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
IEEE's TVCG publishes papers on subjects related to computer graphics, information and scientific visualization, visual analytics, virtual and augmented reality, focusing on theory, algorithms, methodologies, human-computer interaction techniques, systems, software, hardware, and applications in these areas.
Visual Informatics
"Visual Informatics is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the development and application of theories, algorithms and technologies associated with visual data acquisition, analysis, synthesis, perception, enhancement and applications." From the Elsevier Journal Description
Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis
"The Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis [JGSA] provides an advanced forum for theories and applications of geospatial analysis and visualization. The journal serves diverse fields such as cartography, geographic information science/systems, remote sensing, location-based services, photogrammetry, geology, etc." From the Springer Nature Journal Description

Finding an Academic Publisher

Finding the best journal to publish your work

Identifying the best journal to submit your research to can be a difficult process. Authors, be aware of predatory journals!

To help you make the choice of where to submit, Think. Check. Submit. has a produced a video that includes checklist for authors to use to find the right journal.

Using a journal matching technology based on your manuscript title and abstract, the following tools can help you find journals that could be best suited for publishing your systematic review article. You will need also to consult the journal’s aims and scope for further guidance. Simply insert your title and abstract and select the appropriate field-of-research for the best results.

Journal Finder Tools

Looking for an open-access journal to submit your manuscript? Search SciFree for the journals included in open-access agreements where the author processing fees are waived for UMD faculty and students.

You can also try to find other journals by using the title/abstract of your manuscript.

Elsevier Journal Finder
EndNote Manuscript Matcher With a few key pieces of information—your title, abstract, and references—EndNote Match can help you find the right journal for your manuscript.
Jane Biosemantics Just enter the title and/or abstract of the paper in the box, and click on 'Find journals', 'Find authors' or 'Find Articles'. Jane will then compare your document to millions of documents in PubMed to find the best matching journals, authors or articles. Instead of using a title or abstract, you can also search using a keyword search, similar to popular web search engines. Click here to search using keywords.
JournalGuide JournalGuide's goal is "to bring all sources of data together in one place to give authors a simple way to choose the best journal for their research."
SAGE Journal Recommender
Springer Journal Suggester
Taylor & Francis Journal Suggester
Edanz Journal Selector Edanz was established in Japan in 1995 and has helped thousands of researchers all over the world successfully publish in international journals.
Wiley Journal Finder - free
Enter your title and abstract below to search for Wiley journals that match your manuscript.
Wiley Journal Recommendation - paid
Paid service. Check the web site for blog posts on tips of choosing the right journal for your research.

Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies

"PREP is an online platform contributing to the responsible organisation of editorial procedures by scholarly journals. It facilitates journal editors to become transparent about their editorial procedures, advises journal editors and publishers on potential improvements of their peer review procedures, and presents integrated information about the variety of review procedures currently in use. PREP also maintains a database of journals’ current peer review formats and provides information and tools for journals to use journal metrics in a responsible way."