if no one publishes in the low impact journals then how will they get high impact factor?
Hi, Many of the new journals are predatory. A person who is sending his paper to a journal needs some confidence that the journal is a good and respectable one and that his paper will be treated properly. The impact factor helps identify the good journals. It does not need to have a high IF to be reliable.
Every journal must have gone through gradual improvement in course of time since its first publication. This is quite logical. If we look around us we will find many new journals are mushrooming from various parts of the world having their existence only in the web and as pointed out by Avishag Gordon many of them are predatory journals . Some of these journals even stop publishing just after publishing a few volume because they were unable to make profit as expected.
Some might be good also. It is also easy to get our papers published in these newly coming up journals.
I suggest to check the quality of the papers published in these journals first and then proceed if found good.
You question not only assumes that all new journals should or deserve to obtain "high impact", but also assumes that it is the responsibility of authors 2 help new journals obtain I am packed status. I'm not sure the research comunity would agree with these assumptions. Though not without its critics, "The impact factor of a journal is the number of citations, received in that year, of articles published in that journal during the two preceding years, divided by the total number of articles published in that journal during the two preceding years:" (Research Gate, 2012). In other words, the more frequent a journals particles are sighted in a given., the higher the impact factor of that journal. Therefore, at least theoretically speaking, the only way to increase the impact factor for a particular Journal is to get other Scholars to more frequently cite articles from that journal. That is not something that is easily to manipulate or make happen obviously.
Thelma - my Question didn't assume anything. No one assumed anything but you. I am just asking if no one publishes in the low Impact factor journals then how will they get high impact?
Are you speaking on behalf of the whole scientific community?
Someone has to publish in low impact factor journals and in order to get citation.
If we dont do this then we will have the same limited number of journals. The more high impact factor journals we will have the better it will be for scientists.
Your answer is a clear assumption that No one should help new journals and we all must run after high impact factor journals.
also it seemd you are actually assuming that the impact factor is the responsibily of the other scholars who cite a particilar article. Everyone knows that.....
my question remains unanswered- how can we help new journals increase their visibility and impact factor? The only solution to help them is by occasionally sending some of our articles to them. If we are good humans we wont mind helping others.
Hassaan Tohid - I appreciate your standpoint. Just ensure that they send you the proof before final printing.
I don't think that there is bias against new journals. This is just fear for unknown. We do not know how well it would be reviewed, improved and printed.
I think it is very important to be discussed. From my side mostly I check the editorial board and guidelines of the journal then try to guess how it will be in future.
Not everyone is "ready" to publish in high impact journals, it does not mean the research is not worth anything. As I research what had been published in my own field, I do not only go to high impact journals, some junior scholars might have a great article in a lower rank journal. So if we want to "help", as good human beings, the lower impact journals, we can send articles, but we can also cite authors who publish in them. In the end, it is more about the research than the impact of the journal.
If the paper is good, it will find the readers. And the journal will gain its reputation and history over time. It does take time. The most important of the 'young journal' is a research field that suits you (e.g. 'Medicine' or 'Physics' or 'Earth science' etc).
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