To me it is the originality of the publication and usefulness.

The quality of an article may be judged base on what journal it was published, the number of its citations, and who and where it was cited. But the quality of a research (whether published or not) can be judged base on its utilization. 

To me it is the originality of the publication and usefulness.

Dear Hom,

I think the quality of a published paper is BEST judged by:

The depth of its knowledge in the field

Its novelty in findings and contribution to the growth of knowledge

Its relevance in addressing  pertinent problems in the society

Its ability in filling an academic vacuum in the research area

Its well structuredness, grammar and proper level of difficulty for readers

Its strict adherence to the rudiments of a good research paper

Thanks

Dickson Adom

Thank you Dr Romer, Dr Subir and Dr Dickson for your valuable views. Its not easy to publish paper in high impact journal from very limited resources from people of technologically weak universities.  But, some times I can see their paper also highly cited in good journal paper too.

If the paper is good and many researchers are working in that field/allied field, then the possibility of citations increases.

Thank you @ Dr Nirmala for adding your valuable views

Thank you all

I think good peer reviewing process is the first critical step to get good quality article

The quality of an article can be best judged by peer reviewing process.

Thank you Dr Moustafa and Dr Karobi adding your suggestions !

Hi,

The quality of a paper is judged primarily by the referees who are supposed to decide if to accept the paper for publications. If the paper is accepted and published, then the scientific community around this subject area decides if it is interesting and valuable enough, and here the appreciation of the paper is divided between two usage types; citations to the paper, and readership  that is shown by downloading the paper, or just reading it.

Quality of an article depends on the strength of the idea being presented, how well it is discussed, the applicability of the ideas in providing scientific solutions to existing problems and its ability to stimulate further research

Thank you Dr Gordon and Dr Ute for your valuable inputs.

The following papers should be helpful to your topic: 

• Day, A. and Peters, J. (1994). Quality Indicators in an Academic Publishing. Library Review, 43, 7, pp. 4-72.
• Ortinau, D. J. (2011). Writing and publishing important scientific articles: A reviewer's perspective. Journal of Business Research, 64, 2, pp. 150-156.
• Varadarajan, P. R. (1996). From the editor: Reflections on research and publishing. Journal of Marketing, 60, 4, pp. 3-6.
• Whitfield, R. and Peters, J. (2000). Quality in scholarly publishing. Managing Service Quality, 10, 3, pp. 151-155.

Thank you Dr Ngie, for the great information related to academic writing !

Hello Hom Nath Chalise, you can also do a study on Altmetrics, it really gives an insight, not of the quality of the article itself, but the social impact surrounding the research output.

Judgement of article is some times a tough job.

Good day colleagues,

Thank you a lot for your contributions.

Regards

Hom