The importance of Impact Factor was a common feature of respondents. One
publishing manager said “If authors have to choose between 3 journals
with the same scope, they’ll go in order of impact factor almost all the
time.” An editor-in-chief worried about the influence of Impact Factor,
noting that some authors chose a competitor journal with a higher Impact
Factor, despite claiming “this is a poorly managed and uneven journal,
and that papers published there are viewed very differently”.