"flagship journal" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a prominent journal that is considered to be the most important among a group of journals. For example, "The Journal of Medicine is the flagship journal of the American Medical Association."
He is a former editor of Diabetes, the flagship journal of the American Diabetes Association.
The group published the alert in the December issue of its flagship journal, Obstetrics & Gynecology.
The model I suggested would have seen papers submitted for not just one publication, but three: the flagship journal and two companions I called "Septica" and "Antiseptica".
From my perspective as editor in chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association, I think that removing "science" from its long-range statement doesn't deepen a rift so much as widen a misunderstanding.
Genome Biology, BMC's flagship journal, which accepts just one paper in ten, passes 40% of the sound but humdrum sort it spurns to its less prestigious sister publications with reviews attached, says Matthew Cockerill, the group's managing director.
I had some trouble getting that paper published — receiving the dismissive rejection by a flagship journal (the QJE) that seems to be the fate of every innovation in economics — but pressed on.
"For better or worse, the way that knowledge is disseminated today is ever less dependent on the flagship journals.
Flagship journals were chosen to represent their respective fields with Evolution and Human Behavior corresponding to evolutionary psychology, Neuroscience embodying the field of neuroscience, and Cognition characterizing cognitive psychology.
So, I recently flipped through the current issues of Theory and Research in Social Education (TRSE and Social Educationn, two NCSS flagship journals.
A recent issue of the flagship journals of INFORMS, Operations Research (Vol. 56 6)), was a special issue on Operations Research in Health Care.
Even 40 years ago, there were options of where to publish, but each field had one or two flagship journals that were generally considered the 'best'best
