I published very large number of articles and I have high impact factor (IF), but indeed I know: what counts it is the content of the articles and NOT the STATISTICS!!!

I showed that even “The Science” can publishes lousy work (Bohannon’s article).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260527037_The_last_bite_was_deadly_-_About_responsibility_in_scientific_publishing

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60

https://content.iospress.com/articles/clinical-hemorheology-and-microcirculation/ch1820

Therefore...

Goodbye “big” journals! Yes, publishing articles in the internationally recognized quality journals is tedious business. I decided to continue publishing almost exclusively on RG or Academia.edu. There will be no more incompetent “peer reviews”, correspondence with negligent editors, publish or perish…. The readers will have to decide, by their interest, recommendations, downloads, citations.

And in the end, if somebody will want to use those scores to judge somebody’s scientific contribution, there will be no more blind counting of impact factors: the commissions will have to read and understand the scientist’s work. They will have to judge the scientist and not statistics.

Will this be possible? Is it realistic?

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