Its true that many landmark discoveries were published in high impact factor journals, for example the famous papers of Watson & Crick “Molecular structure of nucleic acids” in 1953 in “Nature”, and that single paper provided a new landscape in diverse field of biological science including healthcare, agricultural science, basic laboratory research and so what we call it the impact on different aspects of human society. But with the branding of such journal later it became a trend to publish in high impact factor journals. Ultimately we are deviating from our original goal and join only in a “race” to publish with high impact factor and we really misunderstand the original meaning of the word “impact”.
Now the scenario is changing and society is asking for the impact of what they invest in science on human life and it’s a really valid question. If people are investing on science and not getting much from it then why should they not invest funds to exiting technology and optimization of available resources to make public life easier? But that is also not the correct way as in future where from the new technology is coming out without any investment in research and how a nation becomes competitive on global standards without new technology platform. So it’s the time to go for “impact” not for impact factor.
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