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Brilliant strategy by Jason Ya! \u00a0See related blog post here…<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Where do I send this?!?! \u00a0I have found myself working with this question often, lately, which is great!\u00a0Finding a good problem is hard, and figuring out the math is hard; often it is actually impossible, as when you try to prove something that is not true (ask me how I know!).\u00a0 When you do find something true, and manage to prove it, writing it up is also incredibly time consuming, but somehow you manage. Great! You have produced a manuscript! This is a great victory! But still, here you are, wondering what to do with it.<\/p>\n

In my first projects, I worked with more experienced researchers, who came up with good journal ideas and kindly took that part of the process out of my hands.\u00a0 Also, I had some papers that came out of workshops with proceedings volumes, so the question of where to submit was easily answered.\u00a0 More recently, I have been working on a wider variety of projects, alone and with other early-career researchers, meaning none of us are quite sure what to do once the manuscript is finished.\u00a0 How do I\u00a0know what journals are reputable and rigorously peer-reviewed?\u00a0 How do I\u00a0know what journals will impress people reading my\u00a0CV enough that they will offer me\u00a0a job or approve my\u00a0tenure application? \u00a0There are a lot Google-able answers for these first two questions; here are some nice ones I found on the question of reputability<\/a> and comparing good journals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The harder questions for me are:\u00a0What are good journals for smaller results? Expository work?\u00a0 Research with undergraduate students?<\/p>\n

Smaller results often fit well in regional\/single university-based journals<\/strong>.\u00a0 For example, my math brother Jeremy Muskat and I have a paper in the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics<\/a>.\u00a0 I had a really wonderful experience working with David Grant, an editor for RMJM.\u00a0 Others I have heard are good things about:<\/p>\n