Reacción a "Most researchers would receive more recognition if their work were evaluated independently of the journal in which it is published"

This work does not contribute anything that was not already known. The distribution of citations in articles follows a power law that is poorly described by a mean value such as the impact factor.

To clarify: only 20% of papers will receive more actual citations than the expected value according to the journal's impact factor, while the remaining 80% will receive far fewer or even no citations.

Ninety-five per cent of journals have impact factors below 10. There will be journals defined as Q1 [first quartile] where most articles will receive 10, five or fewer citations.

The situation is even worse now, because Q1 journals already publish more than 60-70% of indexed papers, so we can hardly consider this group as synonymous with excellence.