I just read an interesting interview in a German Online magazine with Noble prize winner Randy Schekman. He warns to out to much value into the impact factor of magazines like “Science” and “Nature” – indeed he claims, they not helping science to progress, but give rise to fashionable and not-solid research.
I agree with him: we have to come up with better systems to evaluate the quality, the importance and relevance of publications and science we do. I just have no idea, what is a better alternative at the current point.
