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I know of some excellent journals in Plant Taxonomy which do not have impact factor.

There are many online journals which show pseudo-IF.

Papers published in good journal with real high impact factors would definitely be good but in my opinion IF should not be sole criterion for future advancements.

Also see

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_more_important_to_observe_Impact_Factor_of_Journal_or_Citations_of_Article

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_important_is_the_impact_factor_of_a_journal1

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_important_is_the_Impact_Factor_when_taking_the_decision_of_what_journal_to_submit_a_manuscript

Subir and Sunil, that is the benchmark of modern academic today.

So, what is the alternative to If?

Or what is the media impact on IF in today academic world?

Presently nothing. We will have to abide by.

In my opinion, it is becoming a pure business. Some very respectful journals with rigorous and serious review procedure actually have lower IF than other easily available, 3 week-review-period kind of journals. Yet as academics we need to cope with such a "market" and strive to increase our academic metrics, such as h-index.

The big picture is that first world that have applied science driven economy is the most beneficiary. In Africa or third world which are raw material driven countries , do not think science drives economy. Poor fund research will not be published in HIGH Rated IF journals.

Usama A Ebead , I agree. Sometimes it is not fair, I published in ACI and have another publication in PCI which will be available soon. Those two journals are very tough to publish in and have a very low acceptance rate (relatively), yet, they have a low RG score (1.03 and 0.23, respectively). Meanwhile, some open source journals with much lower reputation have higher scores.

The best solution to Impact Factor is let your academic works be powered by innovation and market driven solutions.

Why? Imagine asking the Impact Factors on the theoretical framework for WhatsApp or Facebook or Google search engine logarithms . .

Market and solution driven research do not need impact factor period.

You do not need the impact factor of Bill Gate works for China Academy of Science to give him a FELLOW.....Q.E.D

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Like it or not, in the Academic World today, the Impact Factor has a serious bearing. For amateur researchers like me, it doesn't matter one bit.

Murray, then Publish Books and forget the Impacts factors?

Publications in low impact factor journal may carry valuable information

Impact factor is not the content.

If you train your'eye to see value , you will find'.

I think it depends on the institution and their view on impact factor, their interpretation and biases. Some think it's good to publish in high impact journals to gain acceptance in ones area of research, some believe they have better content in terms of validity and repeatability. Some believe even more but at the end, they can't have access for reasons related to where the work was carried out. So it's not an easy divide

Helen, Impact factor is academic branding and value creation.

Google founder do not need impact factors to commercialize their doctoral thesis statement of purpose in a global industry today.

So, Helen, beyond Impact factors? what next in the academia publish or perish philosophy ?

In low IF journal some good research works are published, it doesn't mean that those journals are inferior. If your research work novel and contains large data set, definitely it will get accept in good rated journals too

Knowledge grows by reason of use. Knowledge economy will reduce the ruse about Impact factor this century.

Ayodele, many institutions are realising that the publish or perish syndrome has contributed to the current deplorable state of academic excellence, with time actual excellence will be at the front burner. A change in the right direction is coming and very shortly too. Some of my thoughts!

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I agree with you Ayodele

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Hussam, in academic , product or publication, which is king?

Scientific research is one of the main pillars in the work of the universities to achieve its objectives. It is based on the educational process in the fields of teaching and creative thinking and scientific communication between researchers. It is also one of the basic indicators of the progress and development of universities when competing among them by the faculty members and research centers. Scientific output. For this reason, universities adopted various strategies in encouraging faculty members to write and publish scientific in all its forms and in its various disciplines.

"Many international classifications of universities have to take into consideration their criteria for evaluating universities and their international ranking depending on the size of the global intellectual production of these universities. For example, the Shanghai Classification of the Jiao Jong University (ARWU) since 2003 is based on four criteria, the quality of research performance of universities, which accounted for (40%) of the relative weights of standards,

 Since 2004, the Times University of the World's Rankings has allocated 30% of its assessment of universities to the deployment rate for each faculty member.

The QS classification established a criterion for citations, with a relative weight of 20%

 The Ranking Web World Universities has also established a standard of excellence, which includes the number of scientific papers published in international high-impact journals, and is allocated a relative weight of 15% for this criterion. Therefore, the various universities have sought to provide the necessary requirements for compatibility With the criteria of these classifications. "

This is an era of academic sell-out and read attached paper.

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The era of 'products' and not 'Publish or Perish' will bring respects and honor

to 'academia' to power the industries and research funding guaranteed , not the current'model of ' begging for 'research Grant'

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If every academic PhD scientific thesis has a framework to convert to product,

will the scholars apply for research grand?

Increased your H index means your scientific importance is increasing That would be reflected on the important of your Cv but actually didnt affect your academic promotion