However, it can of course be the case that an essentially good paper becomes published in a journal with low ranking and even in a predatory journal. The background can be bad advice to authors, bad knowledge about journals or that the paper became rejected by established journals by being unconventionaI, not really by being bad. The review process varies also in quality also for good journals.

In a similar way, better ranked journals published sometimes papers which with time are revealing quality problems and even are withdrawn.

Some papers that with time becomes real classics did not at first find any journal that wanted to publish them, an interesting example is Granovetter’s highly influential 1977 paper ”The strenght of weak ties”, with today 49000 citations according to Google Scholar.

The probability to find quality in a better ranked jounal is of course much higher, but my point is that the quality of a paper must not be 100% identified or confused with the status or reputation of the journal.

Amother indicator of quality is the number of citations. In fact, one criteria for reputation of journals is the probability to become well cited when published. individual papers in lower ranked journals can sometimes become much better cited than individual papers in journals with good reputation.

The advice is anyway to research the reputation and profile of possible journals and aim as high as reasonable when chosing which journal to submit a manuscript to.

Treat all research with suspicion! But especially research that appears in journals that are weak.

The give-away signs are poor grammar, careless typography, lax referencing, insufficient detail etc.

Avoid using such material as references, lest you let a weak link into your research.

I agree with Ian Ken. Avoid such papers completely.

However, it can of course be the case that an essentially good paper becomes published in a journal with low ranking and even in a predatory journal. The background can be bad advice to authors, bad knowledge about journals or that the paper became rejected by established journals by being unconventionaI, not really by being bad. The review process varies also in quality also for good journals.

In a similar way, better ranked journals published sometimes papers which with time are revealing quality problems and even are withdrawn.

Some papers that with time becomes real classics did not at first find any journal that wanted to publish them, an interesting example is Granovetter’s highly influential 1977 paper ”The strenght of weak ties”, with today 49000 citations according to Google Scholar.

The probability to find quality in a better ranked jounal is of course much higher, but my point is that the quality of a paper must not be 100% identified or confused with the status or reputation of the journal.

Amother indicator of quality is the number of citations. In fact, one criteria for reputation of journals is the probability to become well cited when published. individual papers in lower ranked journals can sometimes become much better cited than individual papers in journals with good reputation.

The advice is anyway to research the reputation and profile of possible journals and aim as high as reasonable when chosing which journal to submit a manuscript to.

here in China in order to pass PHD you have to publish two papers indexed as SCI,ESCI, or SSCI. Also sometimes they might consider EI, IEEE other than that no matter how many papers you publish in journals with good SJIF, IF, RJIF impact factor or relatively good IC value will not be considered. this might tell you about the importance of being published in Web of Science indexed journals.

hope it have helped.

Thanks to Ian Kennedy , Anders Norberg , Kennedy Chinedu Okafor ,

Hachimenum Nyebuchi Amadi and M. Jawad Sajid for reading my question, responding my question and giving answers to my question.

Dhritikesh Chakrabarty

I have been able to know something about my question from the ansers given by Ian Kennedy , Anders Norberg , Kennedy Chinedu Okafor , Hachimenum Nyebuchi Amadi and M. Jawad Sajid. Thanks to Ian Kennedy , Anders Norberg , Kennedy Chinedu Okafor , Hachimenum Nyebuchi Amadi and M. Jawad Sajid for reading my question, responding my question and giving answers to my question. Dhritikesh Chakrabarty

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Dhritikesh Chakrabarty

In most cases yes, but there are a few gems of articles that you find in low level journals

I agree with Ian, above; but I also agree with Anders and Hachimenum; therefore, whether a research paper is good or bad is not necessarily signalled by the journal in which it is published; for instance, I recall a paper which had been published in a respected journals in my field of substance use-------------many things like grammar, referencing etc. were fine, but all it did was state an obvious research check which even an undergraduate doing a modular course assignment would have taken; I still wonder how the author managed to get it published.

Thanks to Borden Mushonga and Philip Adams for their answers.

Best wishes to them.

I do hereby appreciate the answers given by Ian Kennedy , Anders Norberg , Kennedy Chinedu Okafor , Hachimenum Nyebuchi Amadi, M. Jawad Sajid Gyorgy Banhegyi, Borden Mushonga and Philip Adams.

I have been made more experienced by these answers.

Thanks to them.

absolutely not, quality of a research paper can only be judged by its contents , which include originality of ideas and creativity in research work done, however, in modern times, or so called " materialistic " world everything has to have a numeric tag of importance ( or put it other way a price tag attached to it) , including a research paper, so in my opinion publishing a paper in a journal with higher impact factor provides a paper more credibility ( a more expensive price tag) than a lower impact factor journal, given the current system of peer-review which can be extremely idiotic and biased at times, there remains very few ways to truly ascertain the quality of a research paper, journal impact factor cannot be the sole criteria in this regard.

Thanks to Philip Adams for his opinion/answer to my question.

I am grateful to him.

Thanks to Debopam Ghosh for his valuable opinion/answer to my question.

I am grateful to him and wish him success in life.

I do hereby appreciate Debopam Ghosh for his valuable opinion/answer to my question. Thanks to him.

I do hereby appreciate Pavel Komarov for recommending my question.

Thanks to him.

The paper which gets no citation are generally referred to as poor quality research articles, irrespective of the journal! Thanks.