Globalization of national journals: investigating the growth of international authorship

This study investigated changes in the internationality of national publishers' journals for the period 1990–2013. The patterns of foreign and interregional authorship in papers and references of 4,199 journals from 3,529 publishers were analyzed. The results revealed that foreign authorship increased from 36% to 62% during the period, but interregional authorship only grew from 77% to 82%. The growth in internationality is not the same across disciplines and regions of the world. Agricultural sciences, psychiatry/psychology, and economics and business have the least number of foreign authors, while journals in space science, mathematics, and physics have the most. According to the number of both foreign‐authored papers and foreign‐authored citations, clinical medicine is one of the least international fields. Latin America and Middle East publishers have a greater tendency to publish papers from authors in their countries. In contrast, national publishers in North America have become considerably more international over time. Russia, China, and Brazil publish the least number of foreign authored‐papers in their journals, while Switzerland's journals publish the most.     

Effect of cooperation between Chinese scientific journals and international publishers on journals’ impact factor

Growing cooperation between Chinese journals and international publishers invites an investigation of the effect of this cooperation, based on an analysis of journal IF changes. Data from 23 Chinese academic journals were chosen from about 50 English-language academic journals indexed by SCI or SCIE and with a long history of cooperation. The data do not suggest that cooperation has improved the journals’ IF thus far. It appears that cooperation is generally limited to international distribution, and this has a weak influence on the quality of the journal and its IF, even though the papers can be accessed by worldwide users through publishers’ international distribution networks. Cooperation with international publishers is one step, but actively working on the quality of the journals is a more important step.     

中国科技期刊国际合作评价与对策

通过对中国国际合作期刊及相关国外合作出版机构的问卷调查、实地访谈和专家座谈,深入了解国外出版机构对中国学术出版政策环境、中国合作期刊本身和中外期刊合作障碍的分析与评价,针对中国科技期刊国际合作存在的问题,提出中国科技期刊国际合作对策.     

Publisher Package and Open Access Journals: Are Any of Them Predatory?

Similar to a study by Nelson and Huffman on the presence of predatory journals in aggregator databases, this study presents the results of a comparison between Jeffrey Beall’s List of Standalone Journals and a group of six commercial publisher and open access journal packages. A subject analysis of the predatory journals listed on Beall’s standalone journal list was also conducted along with an analysis of the trend in predatory publisher and journal growth. In the end, only a small number of predatory journals were found to exist within the publisher packages. The subject analysis of the journals on Beall’s standalone journal list revealed that most of the journals on his list were either multidisciplinary in nature or allied with science, medicine/health, and technology subjects. However, because the number of predatory journals discovered in the publisher packages was too small, a meaningful statement about the predominant subject areas of the predatory content found in the publisher packages could not be made. Finally, within the context of the publishing world at large, based on the historical development of predatory publishers and their journals, a dramatic increase in their growth is forecast. Because Beall’s lists of predatory publishers and standalone journals were often used by authors for guidance but are no longer available, several tools for evaluation of publisher and journal quality are summarized.     

引文国际化对论文被引的影响研究

[目的/意义]在学术交流日趋国际化的背景下,本文拟探索引文国际化与被引量之间的关系,力图回答良好的国际视野是否有助于提升论文的学术影响力这一学界普遍关注的问题。[研究设计/方法]以社会科学为研究对象,选取管理学、图书情报学和新闻传播学的181,406篇CSSCI论文为研究样本,采用相关分析、非参数检验与回归分析的方法研究引用外文期刊论文的数量、学术质量、学科领域、时效性对论文被引量的影响。[结论/发现]在控制了文献类型、期刊声誉等若干可能影响论文被引量的因素后,发现样本论文的引文国际化水平对其被引量具有显著的正向影响。具体而言,引用外文期刊论文的数量越多、平均学术质量越高、学科专属度越高、平均时效性越强的论文具有更高的被引量。[创新/价值]证实了国际视野有助于提升中文社科论文的学术影响力,并提出了有针对性的建议。     

由Web of Science数据库分析高影响力中华医学会系列期刊引发的思考

通过Web of Science数据库的“被引参考文献检索”途径,将中华医学会123种非SCI期刊作为国内大量的非SCI科技期刊的代表,统计其刊载文献被SCI期刊引用的情况;以被引文献数量大于50篇作为高影响力期刊的筛选条件,分析其中高影响力期刊的被引文献数量、单篇被引文献最高引用频次、施引文献数量、施引文献最高被引频次以及施引文献的国家地区分布、出版年份分布,从而了解这些非SCI科技期刊的国际影响力.基于这一分析,认为SCI期刊并非是获得同行认可的唯一途径,国内大量的非SCI科技期刊应走“立足国内,面向世界”的发展道路,以踏实做专业领域内有影响力的期刊为目标;同时呼吁国家有关部门能对现行科研评价指标进行调整,鼓励质量上乘的稿件能选择具有影响力的国内期刊发表.     

国际医学系列期刊国际化调查

对国外医学系列期刊变更为国际医学系列期刊5年来的国际化程度做了调查.结果表明,国际医学系列期刊国际化程度还很低,这说明大多数国际医学系列期刊不具备国际性期刊的水准.期刊应重新审视自己在行业中的合理定位,办出自己的特色,不盲目追求国际化,为国际医学交流和促进国内医学发展做出自己的贡献.     

The extent of concentration in journal publishing

This study examines the extent of concentration in the journal publishing industry. A number of aspects are considered: publishers, journal impacts, countries, and languages. For journals indexed in JCR from 1997 to 2009, just 0.2% of publishers produce 50% of journals and articles, and 0.3% of publishers account for the top 50% of citations, impact factors and immediacy indices. More than a half of publishers in JCR are from four countries: USA, UK, Germany and Japan. In addition, more than a half of journals come from the USA and UK. Examining the publishers' interactions in terms of buying and selling journals shows the extent of change by acquisition, and the acquisition links between publishers. The findings confirm that the international market of journal publishing is essentially dominated by a few publishers.     

Scholarly publishing and open access in the Nordic countries

This study examines aspects of scholarly journal publishing in the Nordic countries. On average half of Nordic journals publish online. In most Nordic countries, commercial publishers predominate; however, in Finland the majority are society publishers. The number of open access journals is low, in line with international figures. There is concern to maintain local languages in journal publishing. A majority of the journals publishing in local languages are within social science, humanities, and arts; the STM sector publishes in English. English‐language publications are favoured in research assessments, international recognition, and impact, while the visibility of local‐language scholarly journals in international databases is low. The Nordbib program supports Nordic scholarly journals and fosters co‐operation with publishing companies and learned societies over migration to e‐publishing; it also supports open access. The article discusses future challenges for journal publishing, pointing out the problems of small journal publishers and the need for co‐operation between stakeholders.     

JCR收录的英文刊名常用词缩写分析

针对来稿中英文参考文献刊名常为全称及国内科技期刊英文参考文献刊名错误率高的现状,对2003年美国科学信息研究所<科技期刊引证报告>(JCR)收录的5 907种英文刊名进行分析,统计出刊名中常用单词的缩写,并结合GB/T7714-1987<文后参考文献著录规则>附录的相关内容,简论单词缩写的一些规则,以供科技期刊编辑在编写英文刊名时参考.     

《复印报刊资料》图书馆学情报学期刊排名的实证研究

以《复印报刊资料》(下称资料)研究论文定量分析和2000—2003年图书馆学情报学期刊全文转载排名为基础，通过比较其综合排名与《中文核心期刊要目总览》、《中文社会科学引文索引》、《中国人文社会科学核心期刊要览》的差异和CNKI、《中文科技期刊引文数据库》收录期刊基金论文和被引频次验证排名合理性，结果表明《资料》期刊排名有一定的合理性，基金论文和被引频次是衡量期刊排名的客观指标。     

Internationalization of Chinese STM Journal Publishing

Over the past two decades, China has witnessed a market-oriented reform that created real market players and removed institutional hurdles for its scientific, technological and medical (STM) journals’ international development; it has kept enhancing the journals’ editorial forces, which not only upgraded editorial staff’s international communication skills but also facilitated the journals’ international collaboration with their foreign counterparts; it has also adjusted the journals’ publishing workflows and established a quality-control mechanism centered around peer reviews; and it has tried to internationalize both the journal publishers’ productions and services. Under the above-mentioned endeavors, Chinese STM journal publishing has achieved its initial internationalization progress.     

上海高等学校学报办刊现状与管理模式调查分析

为了了解上海高校学报现状及存在问题,探讨有利于学报发展的最佳管理模式.根据教育部文件<高等学校学报管理办法>精神拟定调查问卷,对有效回收问卷进行统计分析.被统计分析的22家学报中:均被国内外有关检索系统收录,但仅1家进入SCI系统(扩大版);由主管校长领导的仅2家;设专职主编的仅2家;人员缺编10家;办刊经费≤1.5万元/期的13家,不由学校拨款的1家.主要影响因素为领导重视不够,缺少政策性支持,现行管理体制与学报发展不相适应.结果表明:大多数学报处于封闭式关门办刊和被动办刊状态.认为应真正实行直属主管校长领导、对"外"开放、独立建制的主编负责制,并积极尝试分专业联合办刊,逐步向实体的法人制企业化管理过渡.     

入选“卓越行动计划”高校自然科学学报的国际影响力现状分析

文章通过Scopus数据库和SciVal分析平台,统计分析首批入选“中国科技期刊卓越行动计划”高校自然科学学报的载文量、总被引频次、篇均被引频次、高被引论文比、零被引论文比、中国学者引用贡献率、CiteScore及其百分位、发文的专业化程度等指标,定量展示入选的高校自然科学学报的国际影响力现状及差异。研究结果表明,入选的中文学报国际影响力有限,不宜过分强调国际化;入选的英文学报国际影响力有很大提升空间,提倡立足于本土的国际化;中文和英文学报均应凸显专业化特征,坚持高质量发展。     

Delay between online and offline issue of journals: A critical analysis

Journals, which were earlier published in print-only version, are now published in both the online and print versions. It has been established that online versions, free or not, have greater impact over the print version. But there is a difference between the dates of publication of the online and print version of the same journal. This is called the delay measured in terms of days. The purpose of this study is to find the average time delay. For this, data for more than 200 journals of various subjects from different publishers have been manually acquired for publications during the first 6 months of year 2005. Further subject-wise investigation was made during the last month of the year 2005. The average delay is found to be nearly 3 months, but it varies for different publishers. Also, the issue of large deviation from the average delay – as noted in some journals – will be discussed here.     

SCI-E收录中国期刊现状分析

中国作者对发表SCI论文有巨大的需求,但目前SCIE收录的中国期刊数量较少,且总体水平未达到世界平均水平。将SCI-E收录的中国期刊根据语种和论文作者的国籍进行分类后发现:甲类期刊(以中文刊载的论文大于50%)和乙类期刊(发表论文的作者至少50%来自中国,且至少50%的论文以英文形式发表)学术水平未达到国际平均水平,2001—2011年期间变化不大;但乙类期刊是SCI-E收录的中国期刊中的绝大多数。丙类期刊(其刊载的论文至少50%是以英文发表的,且至少50%的论文第一作者为非中国作者)引用指数(JCS)逐年上升,上升幅度明显,2011年超过国际平均水平。说明通过改变语种不能提高期刊的国际影响力。在这3类期刊中,丙类年刊均载文量最低,为117.27篇/刊,2007后呈逐年下降趋势,2011年甚至降至91.07篇/刊。中国被SCI-E收录的期刊数量少,与国内发表SCI论文的巨大需求,以及中国期刊走上国际舞台,发挥更大的学术影响力的需求差距甚远,的确有必要创办更多的英文科技期刊;但是在此过程中,有必要慎重评价SCI-E收录期刊的学术影响力和作用。     

PlumX评价指标对促进中国科技期刊国际传播的启示

利用各种社交网络平台,进行科学论文的获取、分享与传播已成为当前学术交流的重要形式,为此研究社交网络对科技期刊国际传播的影响。利用Elsevier数据库整合的替代计量学指标PlumX,分析PlumX与论文被引频次的关系及其学术特征。基于《中国天然药物》单刊及药理学/毒理学学科分析,均发现高被引论文的PlumX评分显著高于低被引论文,且学科高被引论文的被引频次和PlumX评分呈正相关,此外,高质量的综述和国际论文更易获得社交网络关注。研究结果发现PlumX指标能够对单篇论文的学术影响力进行快速评价,非国际权威期刊中的热点论文也可能获得较高关注,指出英文科技期刊应重视约组社交网络平台发达和应用广泛的相关主流国家优秀稿件,合理利用社交网络平台有助于获得较高的PlumX评分,进而提升发展中国家科学家的话语权。     

Penetration of Nigerian predatory biomedical open access journals 2007–2012: a bibliometric study

This paper presents the bibliometric characteristics of 32 biomedical open access journals published by Academic Journals and International Research Journals – the two Nigerian publishers in Jeffery Beall's list of 23 predatory open access publishers in 2012. Data about the journals and the authors of their articles were collected from the websites of the publishers, Google Scholar and Web of Science. As at December 2012, the journals had together produced a total of 5,601 papers written by 5,599 authors, and received 12,596 citations. Authors from Asia accounted for 56.79% of the publications; those from Africa wrote 28.35% while Europe contributed 7.78%. Authors from Africa accounted for 18.25% of the citations these journals received, and this is about one‐third the number of citations by authors in Asia (54.62%). At country level, India ranks first in the top 10 citer countries, while Nigeria, the host country of the journals, ranked eighth. More in‐depth studies are required to develop further information about the journals such as how much scientific information the journals contain, as well as the science literacy of the authors and the editorial.     

儿科类期刊栏目设置与论文被引频次和下载频次之间的关系

为了考察儿科类期刊栏目设置与论文被引频次、下载频次之间的关系,对6种有较大影响的儿科类杂志,采用中国知网CNKI数据库下载与引证的数据进行分析。结果显示,各刊2001年和2005年发表被引/下载Top10的论文的栏目不尽相同,各刊均有自己的特色。提示为了提高期刊的综合影响力,应考虑各刊的实际情况,发表能体现各刊特色、理论性和实用性均较强的论文。