The scientific journals may be ranked into four groups called quartile of a journal depending upon their IF. These ranks are Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4. Those journals which comes under Q1 are considered to be the best.

Dear Imran Riaz ,

The journal “International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology (IJRASET)” (https://www.ijraset.com/) is not indexed in Scopus or Clarivate’s SCIE. Even worse, the journal is included in the stand-alone journal version of the Beall’s list (https://beallslist.net/standalone-journals/) being a potential predatory journal. There are more red flags, like for example:

-Indexing (https://www.ijraset.com/indexing.php) mentioned numerous so-called misleading metrics (https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/) like DRJI, CiteFactor often used by predatory journals/publishers

-Prominently mentioned impact factors like SJIF, ISI and ISRA impact factors are all fake (https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/

-Contact info using Gmail (often used by predatory journals/publishers)

-Thomson Reuters Researcher ID misleadingly suggests some link to Thomson Reuter indexing. This is in two ways wrong since Impact Factor is no longer assigned by them but by Clarivate and furthermore no indexing in Clarivate’s SCIE

Too many red flags, I would say also looking at the good quality journals you’ve published so far: avoid.

Best regards.

PS. You can check whether a title is Scopus indexed here: https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri?zone=TopNavBar&origin=searchbasic

And to check whether a journal has a real impact factor can be checked here https://mjl.clarivate.com/home (when journal is indexed in Clarivate’s SCIE or SSCI then they have an impact factor)

See enclosed files for the latest list of Scopus titles and the most recent list of impact factors by Clarivate.

For checking the rank of the said journal, having account of clarivate is required. Please contact someone having that account.

It is very interesting question if we put in a different direction. Why the journal impact factor is important? You hope that name of the journal will carry your publication of the your paper/idea and spread it around. The question is more how to get to your audience with a minimum cost and keeping your copyright as much as possible.

I would suggest that looking who are the target of your paper and what journal or magazine reaches this audience. I can give you personal example from my work, I have a paper dealing with pQ2 diagram which a supply and demand question. I published it in die casting engineer which a very low impact magazine. As you can see even on RG it was downloaded over 5k and total from all the other web sites close to 30k. I think for a small industry like die casting it is a great impact. On the other hand I publish a paper with ASME magazine and the impact is a very small fraction. The impact factor did not play role as much as you think. On the other hand, if your paper need a lot a lifting up then by all means go for it.