Publishing papers in good journals is important for researchers’ reputation and career. This paper aims to investigate the perceptions of early-career researchers (ECRs) and mid-career researchers (MCRs) on the factors and attributes that make a good scholarly journal. Data were obtained from 488 Vietnamese researchers using survey method. Descriptive analysis of the survey data demonstrates that the majority of the researchers believe that a good scholarly journal is from well-known publishers and indexed in Web of Science or Scopus. Also, such a journal has good impact factor, high rank, outstanding editors and editorial board members as well as publishes articles written by famous researchers. Comparative analysis reveals that ECRs have stronger beliefs that a good journal has simple submission procedure and is responsive to authors’ queries, whilst MCRs show greater beliefs that a quality journal has good indices measuring its impact and high rank. These findings have several implications for key stakeholders including publishers and editors in the development and marketing of their journals.

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什么是好期刊？越南早期和中期职业研究人员的看法

在好的期刊上发表论文对研究人员的声誉和职业很重要。本文旨在调查职业早期研究人员 (ECR) 和职业中期研究人员 (MCR) 对成为优秀学术期刊的因素和属性的看法。数据是使用调查方法从 488 名越南研究人员那里获得的。对调查数据的描述性分析表明，大多数研究人员认为，好的学术期刊来自知名出版商，并被 Web of Science 或 Scopus 索引。而且，这样的期刊影响因子好，排名高，编辑和编委会成员优秀，发表著名研究人员的文章。比较分析表明，ECR 更相信一个好的期刊提交程序简单，并且对作者的查询做出响应，而 MCR 显示出更多的信念，即高质量的期刊具有衡量其影响力和高排名的良好指标。这些发现对包括出版商和编辑在内的主要利益相关者在其期刊的开发和营销方面具有多种意义。