Reluctance in Selecting an Appropriate Journal
Reluctance in Selecting an Appropriate Journal In research, an appropriate journal selection is indispensable.Those who believe in quantity are reluctant to select an appropriate journal. In the age of AI, writing a paper is no longer an intricate task but a relatively easy one. Those who emphasize rapid publication and wish to have their CVs filled with papers published in low-indexed, database-based journals do not focus on quality. Anyone who visits Research Gate can find many papers published in predatory and low-indexed journals, provided the journals of those papers are checked. In the research sector, having published papers independently is considered a remarkable achievement, even without evaluating the journals’ quality, their impact factors, editorial boards, review processes, or plagiarism-check mechanisms. Publishing papers and sharing them on social media is not just an ill practice in higher education but also a sign of blindly following the trend....