This report is useful of course, but I would like to comment on the last piece of advice:
“submit your work to only the highest quality journals”
This should be an aspiration for all authors (and I am sure this is how the statement is intended). In reality, not all authors are producing work that can be accepted by the top 1% of journals, however journal quality is assessed (but see caveat below).
For most authors, it is enough to have work accepted by an established, reliable journal that is respected by readers and contributors alike, and that will let the work reach it’s intended audience.
Caveat…
Unfortunately, it’s beginning to look as if scam journals are now numerically dominant in the world, so that the new top 1% of journals might in fact be the old top 80% of journals (in the pre-Internet period, for example), so that we really do need to aim for the top 1%, or ‘highest quality journals’.
