I have realised that papers that I published in relatively higher impact factor journals tend to receive more citations than the others. But why?
Firstly, they are more visible on search engines. Secondly, researchers trust their content and thus end up being cited more times. Also citing papers from such journals increases the visibility if your article when published
Dear Robertson K Tengeh, this is what the impact factor is all about. The higher the impact factor of a journal, the more often are papers published in this journal cited on the average.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor
More researchers read those journal articles and trust them to cite.
High impact journals have a well-established readership and dissemination process. Researchers prefer to publish in them and cite them to ensure that their research is also properly disseminated.
But the concept of judging a researcher's worth by judging the number of his or her publications in high impact journals is misconstrue. What matters most is consistent publications, in the same field, such that the publications represent a body of work done to further the field.
Firstly, they are more visible on search engines. Secondly, researchers trust their content and thus end up being cited more times. Also citing papers from such journals increases the visibility if your article when published
Dear Robertson K Tengeh normally the IF of a journal more or less parallels the number of citations of your papers. Of course there are exceptions from the rule. It can happen that a paper published in a decent journal is never cited. However, it always makes sense to aim for high-IF journals.
As a frequent reviewer I observe, that number of submitted papers to a journal IF. So the editors of high IF journal can "put the bar" higher (in terms of quality and novelty of the papers that are taken for review). The better articles are constantly published the higher chance that they will be highly cited.
Regards
GB
Compare your own papers in few journals of different IFs and post here your conclusion. Does it fit to my "model" ?
Dear Grzegorz Boczkaj, to illustrate this, here are two examples of our papers published in the year 2015:
1. Article ChemInform Abstract: Metal Complexes of Curcumin — Synthetic...
Journal: Chemical Society Reviews (IF 42,846)
Citations (Scopus): 152
2. Article Structures and Energetic Properties of Two New Salts Compris...
Journal: Crystals (IF 2.404)
Citations (Scopus): 0
Frank T. Edelmann well, your example fits into the idea, however it has one issue - it is problematic to compare review article with research one.
One thing that is visible here and generally it is also worht to highlight - journals based on review articles tend to have much higher IFs than the one that are publishing also original research articles.
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