Re: Tenure and journals (RE: Elsevier profit)

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

I would like to raise another point, which arises from the report of
Loughborough policies. Are leading journals those with a high impact
factor? Presumably. However there is a great deal of important research
(in science at least) which does not find a home in leading journals,
defined in this way, just because it is specialised and for a
sub-discipline not because it is scientifically of no interest. Good
science does not need to be interesting to a large number of scientists to
make it good science. A journal serving a specialised area (and attracting
few citations)  is not the same as a journal with low standards and low
quality content even if both of them have no impact factor or a low impact
factor.

Anthony Watkinson