Finding a suitable journal for a paper is a time consuming task. There are lots of them, some are well-known, some are not. Some are indexed online, others may have weak online access. And of course there is always a challenging trade-off between the Impact factor of a journal and ease of passing paper through editorial board filters (Although it's not a correct point of view but it's epidemic).
On the other hand there are plenty of AI conferences, growing fast in quantity and quality which are good targets for a paper to make it distinguished.
This page is meant to help you to find out more about Artificial Intelligence Journals and Conferences.
Impact Factor
What is Impact Factor:
Journal Impact Factor is from Journal Citation Report (JCR), a product of Thomson ISI (Institute for Scientific Information). JCR provides quantitative tools for evaluating journals. The impact factor is one of these; it is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a given period of time.
The impact factor for a journal is calculated based on a three-year period, and can be considered to be the average number of times published papers are cited up to two years after publication. For example, the impact factor 2008 for a journal would be calculated as follows:
A = the number of times articles published in 2006-7 were cited in indexed journals during 2008
B = the number of articles, reviews, proceedings or notes published in 2006-7
Impact factor 2008 = A/B
Note that the impact factor 2007 will be actually published in 2008, because it could not be calculated until all of the 2008 publications had been received. Impact factor 2012 will be published in 2013. More info is available in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor and make sure you read the part "misuse of impact factor". You can read related articles here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
