摘要：

【目的】探讨国际医学期刊出版在应对新型冠状病毒肺炎(以下简称“新冠肺炎”)疫情时在同行评议和内容获取方面的策略及其对学术出版领域的长远影响,从而为中国医学期刊发展提出建议,以帮助中国医学期刊适应急速发展的国际学术出版业需求和应对未来突发公共卫生事件的挑战。【方法】通过检索Web of Science数据库和谷歌学术数据库进行文献梳理,并结合行业新闻和国际出版行业协会资讯,分析国际医学期刊应对新冠肺炎疫情时同行评议和开放科学方面的主要策略、成果及其长远影响,并结合中国医学期刊应对策略提出建议。【结果】疫情影响下,国际医学学术期刊出版应对策略主要集中在同行评议提速、开放获取提速和数据挖掘改进3个层面。基于流程细化、专家团队建设和预印本平台协作的审稿提速策略成果显著,但来稿的学术把关水平下降。医学学术内容的开放科学理念进一步强化,开放获取加速,多个大型开放获取数据库建立,数据挖掘分析工具大量被开发。与国际期刊相比,国内医学期刊同行评议和开放科学提速手段少,缺乏多平台多机构合作机制,资源优化和整合能力弱,医学预印本平台、自组织同行评议平台和数据挖掘研究等亟待开发。【结论】疫情下同行评议的提速和开放科学的发展将长远影响国际医学期刊的发展,中国医学期刊需要建立高效标准化的专家审稿制度和新型同行评议平台,以应对全球同行评议模式的演变和提速,并关注相关开放数据平台和数据挖掘工具对开放科学提速的影响。

关键词: 医学学术期刊, 新型冠状肺炎疫情, 同行评议, 开放获取, 数据挖掘

Abstract:

[Purposes] This paper discusses the response of international publishing industry of medical journals in peer review and content access to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its long-term impact and further proposes suggestions for the development of Chinese medical journals, in order to help Chinese medical journals adapt to international academic publishing industry and cope with the challenges of future public health emergencies. [Methods] According to the related papers from Web of Science and Google Scholar, news of global publishing industry, and information from publishing industry associations, this paper analyzed the main strategies of international medical journals in response to the pandemic in terms of peer review and open science, the outcomes, and the long-term impact, and put forward suggestions for Chinese medical journals. [Findings] Amid the pandemic, international medical journals accelerated peer review and open access and improved data mining. To be specific, with special editors and expert teams for the papers on COVID-19 and via preprint platforms, the review was significantly faster, but the balance between speed and quality was a challenge. Open science was deepened among medical journals and open access was sped up. Moreover, major open access databases have been established, and data mining tools have been developed. Compared with international journals, Chinese medical journals have few means to speed up peer review and open science, without cooperation with multiple platforms and institutions. In addition, they have low ability of resource optimization and integration, with no preprint platforms, self-organizing peer review platform, or abundant data mining research. [Conclusions] The acceleration of peer review and the development of open science during the pandemic will have long-term impact on the international medical academic publishing industry. Chinese journals should establish efficient and standardized peer review systems and develop review platforms in order to deal with the evolution and acceleration of global peer review. Chinese academic journals should pay close attention to the impact of preprint, open data platforms, and data mining tools in the medical publishing industry.

Key words: Medical academic journal, COVID-19 pandemic, Peer review, Open access, Data mining