It completely depends on your school's promotion and tenure rules.
At a large research university, high quality journal publications are likely necessary. At a smaller teaching and learning institution, there may be much more flexibility.
Find out what the standards at your school are.
In Croatia it is regulated by science law. It is not the impact factor but indexation and quartile of the journal that matters.
Firstly, it must be clearly stated that the quality of research published by a journal and the citation or publicity of the journal is the criteria used in Journal ranking. Hence, quality research contributions qualifies a journal and not Journal name or identity. This is the reason why quartile percentages of some journals fluctuates yearly. As a researcher, one personal standard i try to maintain is to keep a high publication integrity. This to a large extend has to do with the quality of research bee publish and not the journal in which it is published. However, the general rule of thumb of quality publication been associated mainly with high impact factor or first quartile Journals is a society misnormal.
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