Young researchers often have a few number of publications which are pretty new and the number of citations is limited. To evaluate the output of young scientists the h-index or the m-index may not be used which are both based exclusively on citations and not on impact factors.
I don't know that there is one good answer to his. certainly the number of citations can be an indicator of influence. However, I think you also need to look at who and where the citations are taking place. The impact number of a journal can certainly be a reflection of how many potential eyes will be on your work. However, if one only has no or few citations, that can limit an article's influence.
I do't think this is a binary, I think it's some of both (along with the qulaity of the underlying work itself).
Mohammad -
Measures that basically indicate popularity, in my estimation, may give greater advantage to papers reviewing general concepts, rather than to those highlighting new scientific achievement. Certainly popularity might mean something in either case, but in other discussions on this topic on ResearchGate, I have noted that many appear to think this to be more commercially motivated than directly related to quality. I think that is likely the case.
I think any measure has to be understood in context as at least somewhat subjective in nature.
Cheers - Jim
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I thank Dr. Ali Gazni, really an expert,
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ali_Gazni
who send me the following mail:
Dear Ouerfelli,
The following link is a video in English language investigated the effect of journal’s impact factor on the paper’s citations. It could help you as a researcher and/or a research manager to choose right journals for the publications and to know about the extent to which the quality of the journals influences the papers’ citations. Other learning objectives of these videos are to know, the Nobel prize winners publish their papers in which group of journals, and to know about the publishing strategies in top global-ranked universities.
The training video in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYAobljYHW4&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYAobljYHW4
Best,
Ali Gazni
Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, Regional Information Center for Science and Technology.
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