I've seen people publishing over 20 research articles per year in low impact, low quality journals and I've seen those who publish few articles but in high impact, high quality journals. Ever wondered which one is better, which path should be taken and which one is more helpful in career development?
Dear Dr. Sadeghirad,
To me, if you spend your whole scientific life on a project which you may consider it as a real breakthrough in the near future or as a possible"holy grail" in science even though you are the only one in this vast multiverse who believes in it, you are in the right way. No matter how many publications you have, and no matter what the journal's impact factor is. This is basically a view point I call it "science for science and science for humanity" . However, I do prefer to publish few papers in well-ranked journals rather to publish many in the low-ranked ones. At least, it potentially shows that there is a great passion as well as an incessant endeavor behind your months of research which is really admirable. Your results are complete enough for a comprehensive rather than speculative conclusion and you can be proud of passing a rigorous peer-review.
High impact factor/ quality always matter. For example you have 4-5 articles in good transactions or highly reputed journals with impact factor more than 3 (in engineering). On the other hand you have 30 articles in low quality, non-SCI indexing journals. Then first 4-5 articles will be more valuable than these 30 articles. If you will phase the interview in front of reputed professor or scientist, definitely he will prefer 4-5 articles with better quality over 30 articles with low quality.
Hi,
Publications in high impact journals are considered more important than those in low level journals. When considering the impact of journals for an academic promotion it is recommended to use the 5-year window impact which is more stable than the year by year impact.
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