Is it necessary to submit your work to journals listed in Web of Science rather than indexed in PubMed, or Scopus? Will publication in journals with impact factor determine the influence of your research? Does it make a difference? How?
Dear Samy
In Algerian law, to have your PhD degree you have to publish in ISI or at least Scopus listed journal. Doctors to be habilitated and habilitated Doctors to be Professors, they have also to publish papers in ISI or at least Scopus listed journal. For this reason our ministry of high education and scientific research via his general direction of research and technology development (DGRSDT) is listed two classes of journals : Class A (WOS indexed) and Class B (Scopus and scopus like indexed) see official website
http://www.dgrsdt.dz/Fr/?fc=News_A&id=91
And it added also lists of predatory journals and predatory editorials.
Regards.
Hi Samy,
I would say it depends upon your discipline. Some disciplines may prefer journal publishing opportunities that are listed only in Cabell's.
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--Adrian
As far as concerned to me and to my research field I would like to say Yes.
Yes, One should try to publish in Web of Science (ISI) listed journals.
Dear Samy
In Algerian law, to have your PhD degree you have to publish in ISI or at least Scopus listed journal. Doctors to be habilitated and habilitated Doctors to be Professors, they have also to publish papers in ISI or at least Scopus listed journal. For this reason our ministry of high education and scientific research via his general direction of research and technology development (DGRSDT) is listed two classes of journals : Class A (WOS indexed) and Class B (Scopus and scopus like indexed) see official website
http://www.dgrsdt.dz/Fr/?fc=News_A&id=91
And it added also lists of predatory journals and predatory editorials.
Regards.
I think so, because of the urgent need for solid publishing links that correspond to publishing requirements.
These publications may be published on the condition that they are accredited by the educational institution or its academic institution ... Greetings to you sir
I don't think that there is anything wrong in publishing of research work in Web of Science (ISI) listed journals.
I recommend journals indexed in both ISI and SCOPUS. Impact factor shows how popular the journal is within the scope there of.
Web of Science (ISI) listed journals is also as powerful like scopus. is just that recently there was shift of ranking power from ISI TO SCOPUS. But for me both domain are good and your publication will received good publicity
Looking on the post here it seems the most agreed answer is "yes". However, the motivation is formulated rather in terms of compliance to a specific request (legal, internal regulation a.s.o) and not as an argument. I will try to propose such an argument.
1. How real is the research outcome for the scientific community?
Lets formulate this in terms of graph small world concept - in connection with a small world, there is no truth value to associate.
2. Does the ISI indexed publication open the research outcomes to world (here world as opposite to above small world concept) in such a manner a specified truth value to be associated?
The JTB (Justified Truth Belief, see https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/) is related by publishing in ISI indexed titles.
Coming back to the question it follow from 1 and 2 that only JTB is present if publishing in ISI titles, but this is not proving for the reality, usefulness, etc. of the disseminated research results.
It depends upon your:
- Paper type
- Subject orientation
- Uni/Inst requirement &
- Personal level of satisfaction
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Journal Impact Factor