Generally, every scholar hopes to publish works in genre of journals called "high impact journals". By their nature, subscriptions to many high impact journals are exorbitant, thus mainly accessible to scholars on sponsorship or grants, implying that those without financial muscles wont have access. In addition, such publications are not often open access. Now, does it mean that publications in "low impact journals' or "No impact journals" are valueless?. What are the criteria for "value", "usefulness", "significance" in the context of scholarly publications?. This question is germane because many young, upcoming and freshly minted scholars have built their careers and developed into professionals through access to contents of low and no impact journals. So, should researchers not write or strive to excel because they have no access to high impact journals or capable of producing works that can be published in high impact journals?
Hi @ Edwin, there are several of us on RG who find that "subscriptions to many high impact journals are exorbitant, thus mainly accessible to scholars on sponsorship or grants, implying that those without financial muscles wont have access". But it does not mean that "publications in "low impact journals' or "No impact journals" are valueless". We have found that the only way to decide if a research paper is useful or not is to read it through, rather than take the easy way of looking at a number, the IF. On RG, we will come with comments to tell the whole community of 7 million what we really think. We continue to strive and encourage others to strive despite the odds against us.
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