The general journal is actually an ordinary periodical. Generally speaking, it includes provincial periodicals and national periodicals, and it is also a kind of periodicals with the largest number of publications.

For many newcomers to academic research, in the initial stage of publishing academic research papers, publishing is generally a better choice and usually a wider choice.

What kind of general journals will become academic stains are fake journals and junk journals.

Regardless of the academic quality of journals, journals that publish a large number of papers with rough content and no level for the purpose of making money and profit, or journals that do not have publishing qualifications or have published papers, are collectively referred to as junk journals.

If you want to avoid publishing in junk journals, you should pay attention to the choice of journals. We must learn to identify periodicals and choose periodicals with certain popularity that can be found by the General Administration of Press and Publication, HowNet and Wanfang Database.