You can do the following:
1) Read through the literature. Understand the field you are working in. Be up to date to recent trends and innovation.
2) Look for something meaningful. A problem to solve. Something that can benefit others.
3) Stop working alone and start working with others. A good researcher is someone that can work in teams. Its important to expand your sight into the scientific community. You can brainstorm with your teams and perhaps co-author research articles.
4) Don't let your ego get in the way. Be always humble and ready to learn. Mistakes are ought to happen. When they do and others tell you about them. Be happy that they corrected you and strive to not repeat them.
5) It is preferable to focus on one point and go deep than to scatter your ideas through all the possible topics. Perhaps focus on a topic or point till you can't produce anymore work in it. Then move to the next one.
6) If you can help one person through your work then you've already achieved greatness. In my opinion, Science is wisdom shared.
7) High indexed journals care about level contribution, novelty and element of comparison. To achieve all of these you must first gain enough experience & have a proper problem statement.
