In this era of open access publication where papers are easily available, citation by a high impact journal needs to be valued more.
With my view, That is wrong concept. First of all, the impact factor should be washed out. Its really not true that articles in high impact factor journals are very fair and good compared to the low impact/non impact factor journals.
thank you for being first to respond on this subject. I raised this topic because we now have a over flow of journal publishers and numbers have significantly increased. In hurry they may publish papers compromising quality. So how to evaluate a persons quality
I feel its not necessary to evaluate the quality of the person who is in research. Each and every one is having a different qualities. But in the current world, we might give preference according to his experience in his specialty and open voting of the paper he publishes from readers(from any field), how much interested they are and how they are adding value to the research. Because, an article can have lot of data to understand lot of new concepts might be missed in citations in a present scenario (availability of "n" number of journals in a single field)
I agree with V Natarajan.. yes, there is a misconception among us, and i believe this belief cannot be wiped off so easily.. There are journals with high impact factor where we need to pay huge amount for publication. and why a good author will pay such a hefty amount to get his paper published in such journal? and even though some journals have a provision of partial waiver of processing fee, even this becomes a huge amount, when we, in India, calculate in our currency.. and there are excellent articles in journals even in journals with low or even no impact factor.. thank you
Dear Sir
I do agree with V Natarajan that articles in high impact factor journals are fair and good compared to others. In my experience though we have good articles to publish in high impact journals but their publishing and processing charges are very high. That is a huge set back if at all we have a good article which will get accepted on its merit and content why will we pay just because of its impact factor? I also agree with Vadish Bhat that Journals in which our paper is cited its impact factor should be considered while deciding on the impact /h-index of a researcher.
I do agree with you all: even i have been struggling to understand such scenario: that's why at least if we cannot publish in high impact costly journals we should be credited more if our papers are cited in such journals: that was my point
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