A paper may be published in a local journal (with zero Thomson-Reuters Impact Factor), but is open accessed. However, the author writing the paper is internationally recognized and has a wide network of colleagues, with who the full text is shared immediately after publication. Further, the journal is on-line and does not charge publication fee and hence scientists from all around the would and even poor-countries have a chance to publish in it. The journal comes on time and has a very strict double-blind peer reviewing policy. Reviews are, also, available along with the published paper. Of course, such policies would have this journal adopted by international publishers in a short span of time, but not in the initial 2 to 3 years. The author is very sensitive about the content he/she is giving to world.
Then there is paper published in a prestigious journal, which has page charges, is not open accessed (even after 20 years) the poor-country authors cannot get hold of a relevant paper. Which one is better?
The content of paper is very important, not the journal. There are Open Access Journals with good impact factor and serious peer review.
The content of the paper is very important and the journal impact factor.
Believe it or not, the first thing any seasoned researcher looks at in a paper is the quality of journal and/or its publisher. Everyone knows that the content of the paper is supposed to be more important than where the information was published but sincerely, it is not so in practice. Even if the content of the paper is good, the researcher might still not cite it in future work. If you check the quality of the researchers who cite such papers, you will attest to what I am saying. If you have a good work, please publish in a Thomson Reuters impact factor journal, for the sake of honour, your peace of mind and feeling of satisfaction.
@ Maurice Ekpenyong
Thanks for your detailed analysis and personal views. That seems like a brand name, which determines the price of a product. An unbranded product may be better in performance, but masy not sell well in market.
Thanks for the input of other researchers.
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