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Highly impact paper is best

How ?

Sir impact + citation both reflect the quality

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Zahid Ali Khan

Impact factor directly reflect the citation of the journal

I think impact factor

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You know that impact is directly related to the citation

But some time low impact paper has too much citations

And that will increase the impact of journal

Both are strongly associated with each other

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Agree with @Doaa

Yes sami

We are looking for high impact. As high impact journal publish quality work

Yes but sometime high impact paper have very low citation

We will prefer high impact

High impact paper are quality paper

Yes agree

What do you think of high impact paper with low citation.

That happened some time. But generally high impact journal publish quality work.

The Impact Factor is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a specific year. It is used to measure the importance or rank of a journal by calculating the times its articles are cited. Both of them are interrelated.

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What is the impact of Asian Pacific...that of melon paper

Thats transfer back to society in 2017

That have 1.5 impact

I will prefer high impact

Thats not Thomson Router impact

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The most common metric to track an author's impact is ask how often they are cited. However, for the information to be accurate, a database must:

• Have access to all articles an author publishes
• Have the full text of all articles (letters dissertations, etc.) in the author's field and be able to read every reference (citing article) in every article

We may be able to get close, but

• ​Web of Science searches only 10,000 "high impact" journals of the over 24,000 journals in their database
• Google Scholar searches for everything it can find freely on the web
• Specialized databases have limited access to journals (e.g., PsycINFO includes only 2,395 journals)
• The indexed database, PubMed, has citations from over 35,000 journals - but no references

Thus, no one database can give an accurate count of how many times an individual article (much less the author) has been cited! 

Excellent contribution to the discussion.

Thank you

In the beginning of my work, I prefer highly cited paper is better than publication in highly impacted journal in my opinion. but after working many research papers I prefer publication in highly impacted journal to improve my citations by increasing number of citations.

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To me, firstly, citations are very key in academic space. Next to this is; Is the paper published in high impact journal or not.

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To me, a highly cited paper is better than a highly impact paper.

Obviously, a highly cited paper indicates its importance to the research community, a very relevant work. It is more important than one published in high impact journal that is not read and thus not cited. That brings down issue of celebrity authors who, because of their renown will have anything they write published in such high impact journals. However, papers in high impact journals have wide readership for that is how they got to that score in the first place. That is to say, that it will be rare to have such a paper published in high impact journal not have a wide readership and citation.

Obianuju P. Umeji

High cited is more important.

impact

factor is important for targeting a Job, but citation is important for contribution to the scientific society

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Highly impacted journal article is an evidence of novel publication .But highly cited article means an usefulness of the same article . It is best to merge the above two features .

Article visibility is one of the major factors that influence citation. Experience tells me that online open access articles usually have wider readership, thus citation, than restricted access, as is the case for most journals published by top ranking publishers. However, high impact factor is the easiest parameter to judge the quality of a published work. My advise....both should be targeted when deciding where to publish a work.

For me, both are important. A highly cited paper is good for the author and his institution while the highly impacted journals in which the paper is published is good for their reputation.

Thanks Safia Belhadj

Most of the time with my small experience, some very good articles (highly cited papers) are not published in highly impacted journals. Such publications significantly impact the scientific community.

In the other hand, an author can target HIJ for several reasons (increase visibility, reputation, celebrity...) that may lead to an award, honour, prize or a distinction...

Is't my opinion

Philippe Belle

Thanks for your opinion Philippe Belle Ebanda Kedi

Thanks Jaydip Datta & Okechukwu Pius Aghamelu

Highly impacted papers attract high citations. However, most highly impacted papers are not usually published in Journals that are open access and as such may not be accessible to researchers for citations. It is the quality of papers that attracts wide readability and high citation. Therefore the two are important.

Cited is condition for impact paper

It goes both ways! High impact leads to high citation and vice versa.

Indeed, there would be a serious problem currently in the scientific community related to the impact factors,

This brings many editors to create their impact factor,

citation and the visibility of the journal (indexing in several bases) are importants.

some good articles with hundreds of citations are often published in journals With less impact factor and it does not detract from the scientific relevance of the article.

Citation is important than impact factor.

Highly cited papers are much better thn high impact data

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Agree with you Nyakno jimmy George

Publication of research paper in high impact factor peer reviewed journal will and should be given high weightage and to be considered important than high citation journal. High impact factor index of a particular journal is given based on peer review, number of article reads, article citations, quality of Journal and articles referenced. Whereas citation index is a part of impact factor indexing.

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Both have their own importance

IMPACT factor for scientific journals The real measure of evaluation of scientific journals whether scientific journals Arab or foreign, specialized scientific journals seek to raise the proportion of the measure of the coefficient of influence; because the acquisition of the journal to a high degree means that the scientific papers of specialized scientific excellence of high scientific quality .

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Highly cited paper is good one.

Thanks Joshua O. Ighalo & Nafees Mohammad

"A journal's impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which an average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year."

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

That is statistically speaking, if the article is published in a non high impact journal, and has a number of citations per year higher than the impact factor of the high impact journal, then this article is better. If the article has a lower number of citations per year then the impact factor of the high impact journal, the article is worse.

Thanks for nice discussion Len Leonid Mizrah

Generally, high impact publication got more citations because they are more readable, visible and authentic.

Obviously higher impact factor paper is better than high cited paper. Quality paper will be published in high impact factor journal. Whereas less quality or low grade papers may have high citations.

@Manvendra pratap Singh: "Generally, high impact publication got more citations because they are more readable, visible and authentic."

This statement is correct only statistically not literally. Basically you rephrased in an obscure way the definition of a high-impact journal. It doesn't mean that every particular article in a high impact journal is better than any particular article in a low-impact journal. Statistically speaking it is possible. High impact publication doesn't mean anything other than the fact that this article is published in a high impact journal.

@Pisipaty Srinivas Kishore: "Obviously higher impact factor paper is better than high cited paper."

Papers typically written by students and not published in journals. Scholars typically publish in journal research articles (see the reference below). Yet, it is not 'obviously' that every particular article in a high impact journal would have more citations per year than every particular article in a low impact journal. Though on an average, it is statistically true by definition of a high impact journal.

• What is the difference between Research Article and Research Paper?

• There is no difference as such between a research article and a research paper and both involve original research with findings. • There is a trend to refer to term papers and academic papers written by students in colleges as research papers whereas articles submitted by scholars and scientists with their groundbreaking research are termed as research articles. • Research articles are published in renowned scientific journals whereas papers written by students do not go to journals.

(www.differencebetween.com)

Citation!

IF relates to the journal, not to author.

If your paper gets lots of citation, that is the recognition of its contents which attracted many authors. Although some time a paper with unrealistic suggestions can also get a lot of citations, but those would be more out of criticism.

both have its merits, but highly cited paper is recommended.

Both parameters are purely statistical which means that only one case has very few value to distinguish what is the better. A very high citation paper in a very low impact factor journal or an almost non cited paper in a high impact factor journal are with small probabilities events. In both cases it deserves an extra explanation of what has happened with the results of the paper considered.

On the other hand, not all the areas of knowledge have the same citation average number. For instance it is not having citations in topology than in genetics. So, if you assume that the journals are specialized in subjects which can belong to higher communities than others, it is not the same to publish in a high impact factor journal than in other. I think that all these subtleties and others need to be considered when a comparition between different journals or citations is going to be made to estimate the importance of a scientific publication.

A highly cited paper contributes a lot to the reputation of an author because a lot of researchers read it worldwide. It increases citation. A paper of a high impact can a also contribute to the reputation of an author but priority is given to the number of citations.

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Yes thanks Ahmed Y. Yassin

You can refer to a paper that has been read and cited by numerous researchers as "highly cited paper". But there is nothing like "highly impact paper". Probably what you meant might be a paper published in a journal having high "impact factor".

The Impact Factor (IF) of a journal as followed by Clarivate Analytics is computed based on a three-year period by dividing the total number of current year citations with the source articles published in that journal during the preceding two years. IF is employed to show the relative importance of a journal in a particular field, and not a particular paper in that journal. However, it is likely that one article in a journal might have been highly cited and another article hardly at all, but both the authors are judged equally based on the high impact factor of that journal! In short, a "highly cited paper" may be a better one than a paper published in a journal with high IF .

To me:

Only high quality original research is important.

All other parameters are just ornamental.

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citation

I think highly cited paper means more valuable.

All is good but to me High citation is better

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Appreciate your idea Emmanuel Omeje

The better is highly cited paper