Arun K.Shanker•2016-07-08 08:38 PM
Impact factor of the journal and the quality of research in that journal is a vicious cycle - complex chains of events reinforcing themselves through a feedback loop, or even a feed forward inhibition – Feedback loop - A journal gets high Impact Factor when quality research gets published in it, an author submits quality research to a journal when the impact factor of journal is high. Impact Factor of a journal increase when citation of articles published in it increases, citation of an article increases when the impact factor of the journal in which it is published is high. Feed forward inhibition – not so quality research is published in low impact factor journals and low impact factor journals get low citations and less citation decreases the Impact Factor