Of course not, but it may be used in the same field and publisher

More than IF, SNIP counts. A journal with good SNIP is better and may be sooner or later IF will be replaced.

Muhammad - there are a number of factors, other than IF alone, to determine quality. In fact I, personally, think that it is a flawed strategy to target journals on the basis of IF alone. What I also look out for are:

• Word of mouth reputation - especially review processes
• A well laid out home page
• Clear instructions i.e. author guidelines
• A rigorous online manuscript submission process
• An internationally-renowned Editor-in-Chief/Editor in the relevant discipline
• An established Board committee / International Advisory Board.
• Allocated 'expert' reviewers/advisors i.e. statistical experts
• Clusturing under an established publishing house i.e. Elsevier
• A good amount of early (advanced) view, in-press copy

Of course, many journals are new and it takes a while for them to establish an IF score and reputation etc. However, many of the above list still applies for new journals. Quality can be determined by the amount of 'effort' and good planning that has gone into the launch.

In my opinion, not only the impact factor is taken into account by scientists when choosing a scientific journal for the purpose of publishing their achievements in scientific activity, including the results of research. We can distinguish at least a few of these determinants of choice, but the impact factor is one of the most commonly considered determinants, one of the more important ones. I invite you to the discussion

There are various factors. However in the medical ones, it’s usualy the impact factor they look st.

Impact factor has to do with circulation and some journals are just not going to have the wide circulation of others such as medical journals. It depends on who you want to read your research - practitioners or researchers. Not many journals do both.

Kay Smarly is that due to circulation? Or is it how the science is regarded? Many humanities journals have very low rankings. Is that because they are not regarded as contributing science or lower circulation?

Ok so based on citations Tamer Aboushanab as you say in the paper:

'the mean number of citations of the papers in a journal reflect of the average breadth of interest in these papers during the first years after publication, which is not the same as research quality'

(PDF) The Impact Factor Fallacy. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327113818_The_Impact_Factor_Fallacy [accessed Nov 13 2018].

The quality of qualitative research can be very good but is not regarded as knowledge in the same way an rct is. It should be taken in context however as it is not usually making the claims that can be associated with rcts. Qual research has important uses as does theoretical work.

Of course not, but it may be used in the same field and publisher

In my opinion, the impact factors not to be taken only into account, because there are several factors affecting the IF; such as popularity of the subject, coauthorship, etc. I agree with Hany Kasban, IF may be used in the same field and Publisher.

lmpact factor is only suggestive but not determinative. l agree with the previous comments.

Whatever Haluk said is really heartbreaking. Thats why I don’t believe in any journals authority or monopoly. I publish my papers in all sorts of journals. If we don’t publish in low impact factor journals then how will they get high impact factor? Therefore, we should publish in non popular journals to make them popular. But unfortunately, not everyone is willing to take that risk with their career.

Coming to the question, a well renowned publisher name like Elsevier, TR or Springer automatically gives confidence about the journal quality.

Also make sure you see what kind of papers are being published in these journals lately.

Look at the website too. A non professional website raises my doubts over the quality of a journal.

However, everyone has their own criteria to decide the quality of journals.

We should also not forget that the legendary Nobel Laurette from UC Berkeley Dr. Schekman boycotted one of the Highest impact factor journals because he believes that these journals only accept articles that they feel will get more citations.

Therefore, as I said, different people have different criteria.

Mr Haluk didn't say so.

Dr. Hakan what I meant is that if some journals are biased against some countries then it is really sad and heartbreaking.

And my second point is that we should not worry about journals at all- we should serve science and humanity as a whole. If our article is providing servie and creating value in others life then it is a good article. Journal doesn’t matter. Your work matters.

'Journal doesn’t matter. Your work matters.' That's it. Completely agree with you. But, sometimes, I meet prejudiced editors. Perhaps, it might be a paranoia.

I personally published about 25 papers in last two years. That means I submit papers more than 100 times in a year. In my experience, peer-review is not possible for editors' decisions, it only works for reviewers.

This is a harsh reality and very sad. What is the solution? Can we find a solution to this problem? Anyone wants to share any ideas of a possible solution?

Title pages can be removed till a preliminary decision is made.

Please refer to this link, it contains uploaded Journal Citation Report (JCR) 2017 and 2018

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_I_get_the_Impact_factor_of_a_journal

Regards

Samaa

In present context, it is the only determinant. Yes other things may be thr but who has that amount of time to dwell into

I recommended the following article

Article The Impact Factor Fallacy

Best Regards Sushil Koirala

While IF is an important indicator of journal quality, other criteria such as WoS or Scimago Quartile are also important as they show the position of a journal in a field.

Impact factor is an important determinant. But there other things to consider too

It is obvious that the judgment is not limited to the level of journals, the performance of the researcher and the degree of excellence on this one point.

Good luck