Why bother to go that way ? No need at all

When an institution or a college recruits a researcher, she expects the researcher to lay eggs and to lay gold eggs. But even the researcher himself cannot be sure that he is bound to lay gold eggs. Not only that, what appears more confusing is about the definition of 'gold'. What appears 'gold' to the researcher may not appear so to other researchers and to the employer. In many cases, the employer seeks superficial 'goldness' (such as the impact factor of the journal the papers are published), knowing nothing about the content (such as what is the work discussed in that paper and how it adds value to the body of knowledge) that is inside. A researcher must be tough enough to withstand such pressure, which is really vicious and irrational. A good and confident researcher knows and has to know how to handle such situations. In my opinion, one just needs assure that his work is of good quality (at least satisfying himself who is supposed to be ultimately honest) and then writes it up in a nice paper and submit it to a widely known and read journal for publication. No need to wrestle too much with editor procedures. No need to squeeze yourself into a narrow journal that is inappropriately crowded. No need to seek that outward reputation. If your work is gold, it will glow and will be appreciated eventually.