Number of citations of a paper.

f the article provides a solution to an open problem that has aroused the interest of many researchers for many years (decades), it is certainly a sign of high quality. And here it is absolutely unimportant neither the impact factor of the journal nor the citation index

Thank you sir @ David N. Cheban for your great words

I think impact factor and citations are less important for a quality research. A quality research is that one which address or provide the best solution to a problem which for many decades has been waited for solution.

Today these three are somehow signs of good research work. If you have a good number of external citations it shows the value of your work. Impact factor is also a good sign of nice work but it is not too much important. Number of authors can be any but if they have really contributed in the work. The quality of work should be increased with increasing number of authors and the individual contribution of each author should be mentioned.

In history there are certain results to which people did not paid much attention during their publications or was rejected for publication but later researcher realized the importance of results and was led to an important area.

In my opinion not every researcher have that much time to work on open problems for years because there are other responsibilities of jobs like supervision of PhD students etc. Automatically, one has to pick some less difficult problems for students that they can complete their work on specified time.

In conclusion, one should work on less difficult/important problems with research students and should also work on some sort of open or important/difficult problems in collaboration with experts in the area.

Thanks!

Thank you Kamal Shah saib for your great words

Thank you Wajid Ali and Anita Tomar

A quality paper contains new materials and suggest many ideas that help authors to extend and do more research.

Thank you Marwan Alquran for your great words

A quality research paper contains new materials (problem or theory). It is help many authors to extend and also it is use to real life applicable one.

I Think impact factor show quality of journal. And citations of paper is better for compare of research. So the number of authors show difficulty of issue.

Thank you professors Arul R. and Peyman Bolghar for your comments

The high-quality publication of papers are categories through by Q1, Q2 and Q3. Where the Qs mean number of citation of the journal and Impact factor.

A quality research in mathematics contains new materials being essential for other sciences

Dear Aziz Khan and Professor Marwan Alquran thank you very much for your valuable comments .

In Pakistan in present time we should work and try to do good work valuable for humanity . When Hardy was working in Number theory some one asked that why you do research in number theory . He replied " just for my pleasure". The people at that time was laughing at him. But when modern Computer technology starting work by the using application of number theory the people then understand what is the quality research. Many time a very quality work is rejected by journal without any reason it does not mean that work is bad but there is problem that the decision is not depend on merit of the journal while some time nothing work is published by very good journal. Therefore young researchers should do hard work. One quality will be occur in his work.

Thank you Kamal Shah for your valuable comments

New materials, high citations and good Journal. These three factors reflect the quality of a publication.

Dear Professor Marwan Alquran thank you very much for your comments

I would narrow the list down a bit:

The question that is stated in the paper should be of interest to at least one other person beside yourself. :-) Otherwise it would - for starters - be impossible to publish it.

The impact factor of a journal is completely useless as an evaluator of one particular single journal article that you are looking at: talk to any expert in mathematical statistics (or an expert in bibliometrics) and you would find out! If you want to claim something in general about a journal, you need to analyse a rather large body of work (hundreds of journal articles, over several years). Maybe you can see some patterns that others don't.

"Quality" is also a vague measure, and it is often is evaluated differently among scientists. You can probably state would you like and what you don't like: another individual researcher may have other preferences than you, and that means that we cannot compare!

I have published papers in rather many journals, and cannot see any clear-cut correlation between the quality of single papers in the journals and the IF. It's just not a useful measure!

Thank you very much prof Michael Patriksson for sharing your words and detailed explanation

My pleasure! :-)

Your first and second points count much, but the third point makes no remarkable sense, in my opinion.

Do you care to elaborate on that, Parameshwari?

I also want to add a clarification: that one should be careful to count citations to the paper in two "piles": those citations that have a positive attitude towards the work in the paper, and - in contrast - those citations that have a negative critique against the paper.

Unluckily, also negative critique against a paper adds a citation, and you would need to read the paper in detail in order to learn whether there are relative more critical comments or positive ones. Hence, to assess a paper is somewhat more complicated than one might think, beforehand.

A research shouldn't be judged with journals impact factor as reviewers/editor's interest/expectation may not suit the publication all-time. A long time citations may consider, but it may need few decades for the world to know it's value. So it is not certain too.

Too many authorship occurs now-a-days for some career or other purposes, especially in second world countries and it's worse.

In my perspective, to judge a research, one should give a deep look inside it. In a possible short-time: abstract (perspective), methodology (procedures), and conclusion (results). It may say you what's the potentials with possible suggestions to the authors from you.

In general, the impact factor of the journal and the number of citations of the paper are only of a practical importance, in other words, how one could assess a paper's quality at first glance. The contribution of the paper can solely judged by those working on the same topic, and further on closer topics, of the paper.

New materials and good number of citations.

citation

Understanding of the research problem, research methodology and the appropriate tools.

Let's state first the major criterion - which is that the journal incorporates some of the themes that are also yours. Otherwise you will not be able to publish there.

Then we can discuss the editorial board - do you have a friend therein, so that you might be able to submit already to a person that you know - and she knows YOU?

That would be grand - wouldn't it?

Further, and important: one single journal cannot cater everyone, and you should not only submit to the same journal - most of those who have tried it have been sorry, as journals tend to like balanced issues in terms of themes, so you can only be published every once in a while.

Also, a sometimes a good tactic is to submit short articles every once in a while, on a really narrow field within the scope of the journal; that may sometimes be a rewarding tactic, as the journal's main flow typically is arranged so that one issue, or at least within a few issues, the same major topics are incorporated. Try that. Short articles are scarce, for some reason, but you may have a better chance - especially if you're not well-known - to squeeze in your paper if yours is short.