Suggest a new publishing channel
You are welcome to suggest new publishing channels, and you should absolutely do so if you believe that the publisher/journal fulfills the criteria for approval.
The NSD register of authorised publishing channels, the ITAR register (import service and authorisation register) provides an overview of the academic publishing channels and their levels.
The impact factor is one way of ranking journals according to how often articles are cited. The higher the impact factor number of a journal, the higher it ranks.
Open Access publishing channels
Learn more about one of the two principal pathways to Open Access publishing: publishing in Open Access channels.