<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is a question that comes up every now and then with researchers. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You spend all your career publishing in the 'Journal of X’ because it is the fancy-pants journal of your discipline. The citations to your work in Journal of X are also part of your reputation. Then something happens - the journal loses reputation, or is closed down, or another journal becomes more influential (the Glossa example comes to mind) and suddenly the 'Journal of X' is not considered the top journal any more because 'Journal of Y’ is. What happens to your reputation?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I get the argument that ‘it shouldn’t matter because the emphasis should be on the quality of the paper’ - but many (many, many) researchers have impact factor deeply embedded in their psyche.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t know if there are any case studies or writings on this issue that anyone can point me to?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks in advance for help.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Danny<br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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