Local studies are difficult to publish in high impact journals. However, when you can publish, this does not guarantee that the information reaches the community of interest.
You are right, Juan Manuel. In fact, publishing in indexed journal (peer reviewed and not 'paid-to-publish') is almost at odds with reaching out community or general public that one wants to serve. If any, only indirectly and marginally.
The main cause is that academic journals have a monumental business appetite. They are now even biting into 'open sources'.
The reason why we academics publish in professional journals are for tenuring and promotion. If academics want to reach out the general public, we should go to media and direct community services (lately a.k.a. 'knowledge transfer' etc).
As a Nobel laureate of Medicine has put it there is an ethical issue here:
“I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity. But it is disfigured by inappropriate incentives […] We all know what distorting incentives have done to finance and banking. The incentives my colleagues face are not huge bonuses, but the professional rewards that accompany publication in prestigious journals – chiefly Nature, Cell and Science.” (Randy Schekman. The Guardian, Monday 9 December 2013)
Before going for publication in a journal , the authors are required to know the following things as under:
Speed: Time from submission to acceptance.
Quality: Including the standards of peer review process,
Impact: Evaluation of research, promoting research leading to extensive coverage , providing maximum visibility and exposure for your articles and making them easy to find and cite.
The journal impact factor (IF) is in widespread use for the evaluation of research and researchers, and considerable controversy surrounds it. The concept behind the IF is citations, and the number of them. The IF is a useful tool for the evaluation of journals, but it must be used carefully. Considerations include the number of review papers, letters or other types of material published in a journal, variations between disciplines, and item-by-item impact. Perhaps the most important use of the IF is in the process of academic evaluation. The extent to which the IF is appropriate for the evaluation of the quality of a specific article or journal and particularly for the evaluation of individual and collective research achievements is highly debatable.
Impact factors and their significance; overrated or misused?
http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v198/n7/full/4812185a.html
an interesting article on this topic
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Juan Manuel Trujillo-Gonzalez attention :
In-order to vaster your research skills and your technical contributions, you should probably aim to publish your articles in high impact indexed journals.
An research article with with good fabrication details and conclusions can easily pears through any high impact journals, probably those findings should be unique. Although some things has to be kept in mind inorder to have your article for an wider reach.
1. publish your article to your field relevant publisher.
2. do thorough research and try to understand what you don't understand.
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