If you cared to look thoroughly on the metrics of the journal you would see that its a well known journal in microbiology, with a fine performance. It might be

If you cared to look thoroughly on the metrics of the journal you would see that its a well known journal in microbiology, with a fine performance. It might be okay to dismiss a paper without reading it if its from one of the predatory publishers with +1000 journals and jpg artifacts in their page banner. But it is ridiculous to critic a pilot study with a small number of participants for not getting published in a very top journal. Cargo culting the journal impact factor is so counter to what science is about, that its bewildering that it is so common.