What are the main differences between publishing in high-scoring scientific journals and low-scoring or no points?
The scientist tries to publish in high-ranked places but he is not always able to publish in other journals, which are low-scoring or without points. It depends on the field in which it operates scientifically, how many scientific journals are scored in a given field and what are the requirements and limitations.
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Depends on your university or onational scientific policy. My universty honors publication in impact factor journals by giving some money in author's research fund. On the national level you need to earn points in journals indexed in WOS or Scopus.
Depends on your university or onational scientific policy. My universty honors publication in impact factor journals by giving some money in author's research fund. On the national level you need to earn points in journals indexed in WOS or Scopus.
As Mirna alludes to - there main difference is in terms of academic and scholarly outcomes i.e. funding, national/international reputation and other factors such as promotion and job applications. At the end of the day, in most scenarios, if you are comparing two academics (one with a low h-index and citation rate - and the other with high scores - even though they may be comparable in terms of years of service etc) - the 'system' is going to favour the high scorer - in most issues i.e successful research funding, short-listing for interviews etc. Low scoring (low impact) journals generally means low citation and low recognition of published studies - even if the studies are of good quality. This even equate to academic social media. If we take ResearchGate, for instance, those with high scores, reads, research interest etc are likely to be successful authors in the air field - who publish in established, high-ranking journals for that field.
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The scientist tries to publish in high-ranked places but he is not always able to publish in other journals, which are low-scoring or without points.
Could you please edit the question and/or clarify the meaning here?
Increase your academic visibility followed by rising your h-index sir.
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The academic recognition of your research is visualised through your publications in high impact factor journals . It gives the scientific impact of your research in scientific fraternity worldover, otherwise there will not be any credence to your research.
Everything depends on the answer to the questioń: „What are we doing it for?”
If it is just for mounting our h-index as suggested by Dean Whitehead (what is a good reason because of most of the evaluation systems), than publishing in high ranked journals may raise the visibility and provide so-called “inherited prestige” (no matter of the real value of the contribution as Witold Bogusz wrote). Another problem is editorial policy of the high ranked journals. I have no proof but strongly believe that papers with large number of references to earlier issues are cordially welcomed.
Similar result can be achieved by publishing in “open access journals”. Contributions with teasing titles like: “Basic aspects…” or “Fundamental issues …” may also have high citing potential just because they appear in internet searches.
It is a paradox but I strongly believe that most of those cited papers have never been read :-)
Dear Friends and Colleagues of RG,
What are the determinants of choosing certain types of scientific journals to publish articles, including taking into account the differences in Impact Factor scoring?
What are the other determinants of choosing certain types of scientific journals to publish articles?
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All the high scoring journals follows standardized process of publication and the paper goes through a rigorous review process. Higher SJR score or H-index ( or even ABDC category)ensures the quality of a paper. If your paper publishes in good journal, it will tells upon your domain knowledge and acumen. If your paper finds place in a low scoring journal, academicians will not take you seriously. If you apply for job, it will not support you. It is always advisable to publish in journals with high score.
hat are the main differences between publishing in high-scoring scientific journals and low-scoring or no points?
Dear Research Fraternity,
Determinants of choosing a scientific journals as Prof Dariusz Asked(according to my understanding) are: SJR score, H-index and ABDC list.One should target such journals which have high SJR score or H-index or the journal is listed in ABDC list.
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Prafulla
Dear all,
I am publishing in a rather closed and newly emerging field (World Customs Law) so there are some necessities that are different from other fields:
1. We do have only two or three journals (one not peer-reviewed with a legal approach, 12 issues per year, Global trade and Customs Journal, no score available; and one peer-reviewed, 2 issuses per year, World Customs Journal, no score available...
2. if you have a paper you must see where to place it by contents - applied economic mesurements will not be published by the legal journal...
3. A third journal (peer-reviewed, 2 issues per year, Custom Scientific Journal) has been founded in 2010 and perished early in 2017...
4. In conclusion I am happy toq get my papers published at all; other journals rarely understand the questions and problems of the field...
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