George A. Lozano, Vincent Lariviere and Yves Gingras, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada on how the Impact Factor could lose its supremacy as evaluation method on quality in scientific publishing through publishing process in the digital age.

(…) Since 1990, the overall proportion of highly cited papers coming from high impact factor journals has been decreasing, and of these highly cited papers, the proportion not coming from highly cited journals has also been increasing. Should this pattern continue, it might bring an end to the use of the Impact Factor as a way to evaluate the quality of journals, papers and researchers.