Normally quality of research is judged based on the journal on the contrary the research work must be gauged based on the social impact or benefits it carries!!!
Citations matter the most. I believe that is a deciding factor in who gets Nobel Prizes. Your number of citations is some function of your prestige/rank in the scientific community. It's also important to try to publish your research in high impact journals because more scientists keep up to date on those journals. You could publish some great results in a low impact journal. It could have great implications for society, but with about 2.5 million scientific articles published every year your hard work might collect dust in libraries even with all the great scientific Google search engines like WebOfScience.
Although, I take that back. Your integrity matters the most. If you publish science that cannot be reproduced, one day somebody will read that, trust everyone who cited you, and then some scientist will base his /her hypothesis about what you wrote about. You just harmed the credibility of the scientific community in doing that.
Citations matter the most. I believe that is a deciding factor in who gets Nobel Prizes. Your number of citations is some function of your prestige/rank in the scientific community. It's also important to try to publish your research in high impact journals because more scientists keep up to date on those journals. You could publish some great results in a low impact journal. It could have great implications for society, but with about 2.5 million scientific articles published every year your hard work might collect dust in libraries even with all the great scientific Google search engines like WebOfScience.
Although, I take that back. Your integrity matters the most. If you publish science that cannot be reproduced, one day somebody will read that, trust everyone who cited you, and then some scientist will base his /her hypothesis about what you wrote about. You just harmed the credibility of the scientific community in doing that.
Journal impact factors and citations matter a lot for survival, promotion and career benefits of people who are professors, scientists, research fellows, academicians etc. Social impact is the real impact of the research work and matters a lot for the whole human race on the planet. A research work which had huge impact in the society might not have received lot of citations. Many companies and research organization do application orientation research and do make lot of impact in day to day life. However, they seldom publish those research works and some are kept as trade secrets.
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