Are there examples of a highly impactful paper being published in a very low impact journal?

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Dean Whitehead

Aicha - there may well be - but not that I know of. However, we do know that there is a very strong, positive correlation between Impact Factor and overall impact.

عائشة نجار Aicha Nedjar

thanks dr Dean for the answer, I appreciate it.

David L Morgan

This can certainly happen (I know of one example), but because impact factors are based directly on the number of citations, a low impact factor inherently means that previous articles from that journal have seldom been cited.

Emad Kamil Hussein

It is possible but not always..

Jaydip Datta

It is not a general phenomenon .Because a low IF journal does not mean an inferior quality journal . Acceptance or Rejection of a manuscript soulely depends on quality of REVEIWEING process.