Nature: 90% whatever’s hot in bio right now, 10% other

Science: 2 pages of a really cool story, 50 pages of supplement

Cell: your entire dissertation edited down to 20 unreadable pages

PNAS: papers Academy members couldn’t get into better journals

PLOS one: papers non Academy members couldn’t get into better journals, but open source

eLife: papers people couldn’t get into PLOS one

Nature [insert field]: research that isn’t hot enough for Nature

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics: we couldn’t decide if we were one field or two

JACS: chemistry you’re pretty sure is cool but honestly you’re not sure you understand

Angewante Chemie: JACS but German

Advances in Physics: scientific journals: a statistical approach

Astrophysical Journal: not nearly enough pictures of space

Actual Journal of Your Field: solid science, interesting, low impact