Thread by @AngelBorjaYerro

Heyy! #marineresearchers!!!!
Interesting discussion:
- Publishing in high impact factor journals?
or
- Publishing in journals maximizing the citations?
see tread below
#Impactfactor #metrics #scientometrics #science #citations

I have made a small research:
- Selected several journals with impact factors between 1.6 and 49.5
- Looking in Scopus for papers published in 2020
- Looking at the papers which didn't receive citations until now

and the results are....👇👇👇👇👇

You can see the results here:
- Papers published in Science didn't receive citations in 46.6% of cases
- In Nature this is 27.5%
You can be very happy publishing there, but maybe you will never receive a citation!!!!!

on the contrary, publishing in journals with impact factors between 5 and 10 could maximize the possibility of receiving citations (<5% of the papers published didn't receive citations)

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some of you have commented that maybe I have included item non citable. I don't know. To avoid that, I have repeated the analysis, including only the publications receiving any citation and calculated the percentage receiving only one citation.
.... and the results are....👇👇👇

tachan!
more or less the same: the papers receiving only 1 citation in high IF journals are around 12% (same as low IF). Again, the best are those with IF 5-10!

what does this mean? that probably high IF journals receive many citations in a low number of papers, whilst the others received a better distributed number of citations, but this need to be explored

in any case, it sghould be better judging the success of an author based on their citations, rather than in the IFs of the journals in which (s)he has published

my point is that journals as Nature and Science have a good media marketing to increase expectation and attract high number of citations to a number of papers, to maintain high IF, but most papers don't receive citations. Of course, this should be demonstrated...