  This study aims to provide information about the Q Concept defined as the
division of journal impact factors into quartiles based on given field
categories so that the disadvantages resulting from the direct use of journal
impact factors can be eliminated. While the number of "Original articles
published in the Web of Science (WoS) database-indexed journals like SCI, SSCI
and A&HCI" is an important indicator for research assessment in Turkey, neither
the journal impact factors nor the Q Concept of these papers have been taken
into account. Present study analyzes the scientific production of the Amasya
University researchers in journals indexed in WoS database in the period
2014-2018 using the Q concept. The share of publications by Q category journals
as well as the average citations received by the works from Amasya University
were compared to the average situation in Turkey and other different countries
in the world. Results indicate that the articles published by Amasya University
researchers were mostly published in low impact factor journals (Q4 journals)
(36.49%), in fact, only a small share of papers were published in high impact
journals (14.32% in Q1 journals). The share of papers published in low impact
journals by researchers from Amasya University is higher than the Turkish
average and much higher than the scientific leading countries. The average
citations received by papers published in Q1 journals was around six times
higher than papers published in Q4 journals (8.92 vs. 1.56), thus papers
published in Q1 journals received 30.02% citations despite only 14.32% of the
papers was published in these journals. The share of papers published which
were never cited in WoS was 27.48%, increasing from 9.68% in Q1 to almost half
(48.10%) in Q4. The study concludes with some suggestions on how and where the
Q Concept can be used.
