There are no 'consequences' as such - unless your institution measures your research performance using metrics such as IF and quality-rankings (as well as citation rates) aligned to journals. Ideally, and a bit of background pre-planning 'homework' should assist, a good strategy is to target journals with appropriate impact factors for your discipline/institutional preference that also have an established reputation for efficient and effective editorial and peer review processes.

Hi, I think you should focus your publications in more recognized journals (with higher impact factors) the more you progress in your field. Having mentioned this though, keep an eye out for newer journals that are getting contributions from well-cited authors.

There are no 'consequences' as such - unless your institution measures your research performance using metrics such as IF and quality-rankings (as well as citation rates) aligned to journals. Ideally, and a bit of background pre-planning 'homework' should assist, a good strategy is to target journals with appropriate impact factors for your discipline/institutional preference that also have an established reputation for efficient and effective editorial and peer review processes.

Well it depends on the requirement of your institution. But Definitely IF journals are more reliable and recognized everywhere.

Important points during publishing articles or Books:

1. IF

2. Indexing

If you have a quality work, then target it to high impact journals having good indexing.

Finally it all depends on views, downloads and citations of any article...

The first answer I could offer to the question is; nothing should happen.

I want to take the reflection to the following. As researchers we intend that our works are known and valued, also cited and considered by the scientific community. Now, we are part of university institutions, which require us a certain amount and level of publications, these must be or be in high impact journals. It is then concluded that, if we publish in a quarter 1 journal, then our article is of very high quality and will be widely read. The above is not always the case, will my article have the impact I want in my country by publishing the results and reflections in foreign journals and in a non-native language?

Now let's pose the following scenario. As a researcher I intend to achieve an impact in my region, in my country, not everyone has access to indexed journals and articles for which you have to pay, in turn, I intend that my ideas are known by different professionals who are related to the area and the problems I try to solve, which is ultimately where I want to contribute; I want to do my work in international journals, which are written in English, I want to do it in my native language and publish it in Colombian academic spaces, which are free and open access, that can be read by people who are within my country. involved with the problems I describe. In conclusion, if my goal is to contribute to the development of my country, I would not have to bring the discussions and research results to foreign journals, which will also be written in English, the ideas would be to publish it in Colombian journals and discuss it with the academic community of my country. Unfortunately this situation is not like that, and if I decide to publish my article in a Colombian journal, to which students, professionals and society in general will have access, then my article will lack value.

Sorry for the english, it´s a translate from spanish, I expect you can understand what I´m saying.

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