During a meeting a senior person said he does not need extension any more as he has been asked to publish in a journal with a high impact factor This statement is not from any real situation but improvised to bring out a point. Good impact factor journals require hi degree of sophistication and genomic proteomic or metabolomic research or vast experience of dealing in modern areas. Life sciences journal by and large have lower impact factor as compared to Biophysics etc. I still remember my late Professor Dr Neumann advised one of my student who has worked in his laboratory on some salinity problems to publish the paper in journal from the region where the research has some relevance. A paper dealing with situation in Asia or Africa will hardly get accepted in a journal with impact factor in two digits or even single digit. In my opinion this does not mean the research has no relevance. Unfortunately people don’t have access to high cost journals which provide latest information’s or high tech instruments or research dealing with molecular biology alone. Research dealing with soil characterization is equally important. Plant physiology and understanding of regulation of basic life processes still a topic of research. Jumping blindly on a bandwagon of molecular biology for each and every scientist is not possible and some areas of research truly require down to earth work with soil and plants. Taxonomy, physiology, anatomy have journals which do not have impact factor comparable to biophysics or biotechnology. This does not mean that researches in this area should not be carried out or we neglect major part of the world dealing with basic and fundamental work which has local importance and use. It’s time we look back and correct our path of impact factors from application of research in different agro climatic zones of the earth on real term basis besides promoting research which might or might not have an impact at the field level in immediate time zone.