中国科技核心期刊刊名的“三段式”命名规律

通过对2013年1 919种以中文出版的中国科技核心期刊刊名的分析研究,发现我国科技期刊的命名规律是以学科主题属性为核心的"三段式"命名规律,通常依次由限定词、学科主题属性、文献属性3部分组合构成。限定词包括地域限定词、时间限定词、其他限定词3类;学科主题属性按照覆盖范围划分为一级学科、二级学科、三级及以下学科、多学科4个类别;文献属性归为研究前沿与进展快报类文献、研究成果文献、综述评述类文献3类。研究发现:我国核心期刊的命名约2/3聚焦于三级及以下学科主题;一些限制词和文献属性与期刊实际定位之间存在差距;设计标新立异的刊名是可以肯定的积极探索,但是存在使用国际名刊的刊名、使用标点符号和拉丁字母等设计误区。

Triple-section law:the rule of Chinese academic journals' titles

Through the analysis of the 1919 journals indexed in Chinese S&T Papers Citations Database of China (2013), we found that the rule of the journals'' titles is the Triple-Section Law, which is composed by Front Determiners (FD), Subject Categories (SC) and Document Type (DT). The FD includes the regional qualifiers, time determiners, other determiners. The SC contains four categories:first-level discipline, second-level discipline, third-level discipline and multi-discipline. The DT can be divided into three categories, such as the research letters, articles and review. The study found that:about two thirds of the journal titles focus on third-level discipline. There is a gap between the journal-positioning defined with using words in title and the real situation for some journals. There also is the misunderstanding by the duplicating title from international famous journal name, and using punctuation and Latin letters with Chinese words together in title.