Lots of junk gets published in top ranked journals. A lot more get published in vanity journals, so I use the impact factor as a first pass filter: I avoid pa

Lots of junk gets published in top ranked journals. A lot more get published in vanity journals, so I use the impact factor as a first pass filter: I avoid papers from journals not listed the JCR¹ or those with a factor below 1.000. I assume, maybe naively, that if an important finding were to be published in such low quality journal, it would eventually get published in a more legit publication. 1- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342623066_Journal_Citation_Reports_2020_Impact_factor_Ranking_of_2019 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342623066_Journal_C...