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[Purposes] To explore the innovative pathways, development outcomes, and lessons learned from the centralized management model of university journals. [Methods] Taking “Xi’an Jiaotong University Journal Cluster” as an example, this study combines the evolutionary process of the journal group and its management model innovations to summarize specific innovative practice pathways, achievements, and insights. [Findings] The centralized management model has enabled“Xi’an Jiaotong University Journal Cluster” to achieve significant results in launching new journals, enhancing academic influence, promoting scholarly communication, and constructing the “Silk Road Journal Cluster”. [Conclusions] The centralized management model ensures the sustainable development of journal groups through top-level design, innovative management models, operational reforms, organized research initiatives, and collaborative journal operation models. It serves as a significant approach for the clustered management of university journals.
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[Purposes] Identifying and addressing issues in the digital publishing platforms of academic journal clusters in China’s universities to promote the development of university journal cluster platforms. [Methods] Through literature review, case studies, and telephone surveys, employing methods such as summarization and logical analysis, this research investigates the journal cluster platforms of 18 “Double First-Class” universities, identifies common issues, analyzes potential causes, proposes development pathways, and introduces the practical experience of Xi’an Jiaotong University. [Findings] Currently, university journal cluster platforms face issues such as uneven development, limited quantity and capacity, unclear positioning, weak functionality, lack of user service awareness, and limited influence. These problems stem from the dispersed distribution of university journals, weak organizational capacity, insufficient sustained investment, weak self-sustaining capabilities, and a shortage of technical talent. When constructing journal cluster platforms, universities and journal management departments should adhere to intensive development, clarify platform construction goals, dynamically adjust and evolve progressively, increase human resource investment, promote technical collaboration, enhance multifunctional convenience, highlight distinctive features, explore big data and artificial intelligence technologies, and strengthen profitability. Xi’an Jiaotong University has established the silk road journal cluster through cluster-based development, supporting it with a dedicated platform and implementing a three-step strategy for steady progress. The construction unit has assigned internal specialists, actively sought external technical cooperation, and created a platform offering full-process functional services, multilingual support, and empowerment through big data and artificial intelligence. Through professional team operations and platform brand building, profitability is strengthened, ensuring the long-term sustainability of the platform. [Conclusions] The development of university journal cluster platforms remains insufficient. Universities should clearly recognize the crucial supporting role of these platforms for journal clusters, fully leverage their functions, and create user-friendly and intelligent university journal cluster platforms.
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[Purposes] This study explores how the construction of journal cluster in university enhances the sustainable publishing capacity. It summarizes the strategies and models adopted by typical university journal cluster in launching English journals. [Methods] Adopting methods of induction and deduction, comparative analysis, and case study, considering the current situation of journal publication management in China and the guiding and supportive policies for the establishment of new journals, this study takes “Xi’an Jiaotong University Journal Cluster” as an example and analyzed the strategies and sustainable journal establishment models for the cluster development of journals sponsored by universities. [Findings] “Xi’an Jiaotong University Journal Cluster” has enhanced its sustainable publishing capacity through strengthened top-level design, innovative management mechanisms, optimized journal layout, and the “excellent journals leading the cluster” approach. During the cluster development process, Xi’an Jiaotong University has successfully launched a series of high-quality English journals within a short period by targeting academic gaps, focusing on advantageous and emerging interdisciplinary fields, adopting innovative operational models, and securing policy support. [Conclusions] The development of “Xi’an Jiaotong University Journal Cluster” exemplifies a dynamic practice of “excellent journals leading the cluster, cultivating journals through the cluster, and interactive journal-cluster synergy”. Innovations in management systems and operational models play a crucial role in enhancing the sustainable publishing capacity of the journal cluster. This also demonstrates that research-intensive universities, as journal sponsors, have great potential in building world-class journals. In the future, universities should focus on exploring and utilizing their own advantages actively, contributing to China’s achievement of sci-tech self-reliance and self-strengthening at higher levels through the construction of world-class journals and journal clusters.
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[Purposes] Starting from the background of university journal integration, this study explores the advancement strategies and solutions for integrated publishing operations, aiming to provide experiential models and practical references for similar universities to promote cluster-based journal construction. [Methods] Through literature review, case studies, and practical summaries, this research comprehensively investigates the core ideas of the “ Xi’ an Jiaotong University Journal Cluster” in integrated publishing operations, its current challenges, and proposes solutions for key issues. [Findings] The “ Xi’ an Jiaotong University Journal Cluster ” has achieved centralized and unified management of resources through standardized operation management, professional job positions, centralized printing services, and diversified promotional efforts, effectively addressing various difficulties and pain points in the development of university journal integration. This has solidified the implementation of integrated management and deepened development of the “Xi’ an Jiaotong University Journal Cluster”. [Conclusions] University journal integration is a multidimensional systemic project involving innovation, efficiency enhancement, and quality improvement. It can be approached from four aspects of strategy, management, brand, and academia, to support the development of university journals towards integration, branding, and diversification.
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[Purposes] Irregular citation behaviors in academic journals exhibit complex forms and ambiguous boundaries. Existing guidelines often fail to encompass the full range of practical scenarios, with insufficient attention paid to questionable citation practices. [Methods] Drawing on retraction data, policy documents, and academic literature related to citation misconduct, this study analyzes citation irregularities from multiple dimensions, including behavioral forms and identification criteria. [Findings] It categorizes citation misconduct that must be strictly prohibited, as well as citation practices that deviate from academic norms and should be treated with caution. Based on these, the study proposes a backlist and graylist of citation behaviors. [Conclusions] By constructing the blacklist-graylist framework, this study provides a theoretical basis for identifying and preventing citation misconduct in the academic community. It aims to raise awareness among authors about citation norms and the integrity risks of gray-area citation practices, while also offering guidance for journals to establish more refined and actionable citation standards.
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[Purposes] To explore the current situation, problems and countermeasures of the industrialization of scientific and technological periodicals in China under the background of open science, and to provide theoretical basis and practical suggestions for promoting the sustainable development of scientific and technological periodicals industry in the open science environment. [Methods] Using the expert interview method and literature research method, the academician experts, journal publishing policy experts, digital publishing technology experts, domestic and foreign publishing institution experts and experts in the field of library and information technology were interviewed to summarize the characteristics of the transformation of the traditional scientific and technological periodical industry at this stage. [Findings] Open science has put forward new requirements for the transformation of the traditional scientific and technological journal industry, including the need for collaboration in the research and production stage, the need for transparency and efficiency in the review stage, the demand for business model innovation in the publishing and distribution stage, the demand for diversification in the knowledge dissemination and impact assessment stage, and the cross-stage systematic demand. China’s scientific and technological periodicals industry is undergoing four changes: from scattered fragmentation to intensive integration and evolution, from content carriers to knowledge service platforms, from catch-up imitation to characteristic development, and from index-only to multi-evaluation paradigm change. [Conclusions] The future development of China’s scientific and technological periodical industry should focus on five aspects: industrial integration (from a single medium to a cross-border ecosystem), technology-driven (AI empowerment and data value release), open transformation (coexistence and development of multi-level open models), evaluation reform (multiple value orientation and quality core), and international collaboration (seeking win-win cooperation in competition). Through deepening reform, technological innovation and model change, China’s scientific and technological journal industry can contribute Chinese wisdom and solutions to global open science while serving the country’s innovation and development.
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[Purposes] To establish a journal policy framework and documents in line with international standards and can be referred to by independently established China’s English scientific journals, in order to enhance the recognition of the China’s journal quality in the international academic publishing community. [Methods] By collecting the selection criteria of important databases such as WoS and Scopus, the recommendations and guidelines of main international academic publishing organizations such as COPE and ICMJE, the research ethical guidelines such as the Helsinki Declaration, the relevant policies of China, and drawing on the experience of international publishing institutions, the structure and necessary contents of the journal policy are analyzed and established. [Findings] A journal policy framework including peer review policy, editorial policy, research ethics and reporting guidelines has been established, the key points on contents and document writing are clarified. [Conclusions] The journal policy documents constructed based on this research has been reviewed and proved by international databases and international academic publishing organizations, and demonstrated to meet the international standards.
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[Purposes] To investigate the status quo of conflict of interest disclosure policies in Japanese medical journals and to provide a reference for medical journals in China. [Methods] The conflict of interest guidelines, regulations and systems, as well as expressions related to conflict of interest disclosure in documents such as the call for manuscripts, manuscript requirements, submission instructions, important reminders, and the review process published on the official websites of 131 journals of Japanese Association of Medical Sciences(JAMS)were used as the material for analysis, then conducted narrative statistics on items such as the classification of conflict of interest, the disclosure process, disclosure requirements, and the handling methods of the journals. [Findings] All 131 journals of JAMS have conflict of interest disclosure policies on their official websites that can cover all subjects of the entire publication process. The conflict of interest disclosure policies of Japanese medical journals have been brought into line with the international mainstream, and also show respect for medical research and practice in Japan in terms of disclosure scale, conflict avoidance, and information protection. [Conclusions] Medical journals in China should enhance the awareness of conflict of interest disclosure, improve conflict of interest disclosure policies and pay attention to the combination of applicability and principle.
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[Purposes] This study aims to explore the focal points, trends, and blind spots of artificial intelligence content topics in the WeChat official accounts of scientific and technological journals, so as to promote the integrated development of scientific journals. [Methods] Python was used to crawl relevant articles in the past five years. The BERTopic method was applied to analyze the hot topics and their evolutionary trends, and the Gephi clustering method was utilized to sort out the national artificial intelligence policy system. By comparing, the blind spots in topic setting were identified. [Findings] The relevant topics can be divided into four dimensions: technology, application, product service, and ethics. There is a lack of discussion on issues such as data specification, model infrastructure, scenario coverage, market-oriented products, rights protection, technology/data security, and industry standards. In the future, artificial intelligence technology will focus on model data/training and generative large-scale models. Protein molecules and coal mining may become popular application scenarios, and ethical governance will be a hot topic. [Conclusions] Based on this, a four-dimensional strategic optimization framework of “technology-application-product-risk” was proposed to provide methodological support for the in-depth integrated development of scientific journals.
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[Purposes] This paper aims to explore the characteristics of pre-review within 24 h (24 h review) and the differences between 24 h review and traditional publishing model of scientific journals, and thus provide a reference for optimizing the publishing model and promoting the development of the scientific journals in China. [Methods] We systematically compared the differences between 24 h review and multi-journal submission (MJS) model put forward by Cell Press, and summarized the characteristics, advantages, and shortcomings of 24 h review model, based on the online research. [Findings] The traditional publishing model adhered to the principle of “single submission”. In contrast, the MJS model in Cell Press allows for simultaneous submissions to multiple journals. 24 h review model adopts a “5 min submission + 24 h feedback” mode to achieve synchronous pre-review across multiple journals, with a decision on whether the manuscript would be submitted for peer review within 24 h. The 24 h review model is characterized by rapid feedback and clustering management. It can significantly improve the submission efficiency and authors’ experience, and strengthen the collaboration and influence of the journal cluster. Meanwhile, higher requirements of the publishing process, the management of publishers, and the professionalism of the editors were proposed. [Conclusions] The scientific journals in China can benefit from 24 h review model, which can enhance the overall competitiveness of journal clusters by cultivating the multi-skilled editors for mulitple journal collaboration, integrating publishing resources, and developing a talent echelon.
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[Purposes] This paper clarifies the development mode and characteristic functions of international agricultural preprint platform, draws on these development experience,so as to provide theoretical reference and practical reference for the construction of agricultural preprint platform in China. [Methods] Three international agricultural preprints platforms agriRxiv, AgEcon Search, and Organic Eprints included in DOAPR were selected as the research objects,analyzed the development experience of international agricultural preprints platforms, constructed the framework and put forward development suggestions for the construction of agricultural preprint platforms in China. [Findings] The international agricultural preprint platform has carried out preprint submission standards, constructed platform operating system, formulated data management system and scientific research evaluation standard, promoted academic resource sharing. [Conclusions] This paper put forward framework design and development suggestions of Chinese agricultural preprint platform,included building the technical operating system,optimizing the platform construction foundation;optimizing the submission process management and strengthening the standardization construction;strengthening data utilization management to ensure data sharing;improving the audit process management to ensure the scientific value of resources;Improving the management of peer review and realize the mutual review of journals.Improving the management of promotion and communication,and strive to promote open research.
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[Purposes] This article aims to analyse the construction and development model of journal group of the “AME Publishing Company (AME)”, hoping to provide a reference for the clusterization, internationalization development and knowledge service platform construction of English journals in China. [Methods] 63 English medical scientific and technical journals of AME were referred to as research objects. The data on journal publication, publishing cooperation, editorial board construction, database inclusion, digitalization construction, etc., were collected. Additionally, the publication mode, clustered development, experience, and lesson of AME were analyzed and summarized by bibliometrics method. [Findings] By focusing on multidisciplinary collaboration, keeping abreast with the trends in medical fields, consolidating digital platforms, improving publishing service, and building the journals from strength to strength, AME has established a certain level of influence and recognition in the medical academic publishing field and formed a certain brand effect. AME has become a significant force in the academic publishing field. But there was still room for improvement in the evaluation and supervision for the operation of journals. [Conclusions] A relatively complete profile of journals and a mature and professional operation system have been created by the AME Publishing Company. Furthermore, this publisher has built a mature and sustainable English journal incubation platform.
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[Purposes] This paper aims to comprehensively analyze the international influence of Chinese scientific papers, and to provide reference for China to enhance its international scientific competitiveness and discourse power in the academic field. [Methods] Based on the SCI and ESI databases, this paper conducts an in-depth analysis of the international influence of Chinese scientific papers from four aspects: international citation status, cited Chinese papers, high-level international papers, and international co-authored papers. [Findings] In 2023, the number of Chinese scientific papers cited by international papers ranked first globally. The number of highly cited papers secured the second position worldwide, while the count of hot papers topped the global list. The number of papers published in top international journals ranked second globally. Additionally, China produced 151200 internationally co-authored papers. [Conclusions] The international influence of Chinese scientific papers has reached a relatively high level, but there is still room for improvement in pioneering achievements in fundamental research fields.
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[Purposes] Facing the shortcomings of journal impact metrics evaluation, the journal normalized disruption index (JNDI) was designed as a journal innovation evaluation index, which evaluated journals in the field of pharmacy, to develop the scientific evaluation system and promote scientific innovation. [Methods] We selected 29836 articles classified into the WoS category “pharmacology & pharmacy” published in 2016 with a cumulative citation time window of 7 years as the research objects, covering 218 journals. We extracted papers, journals, and citation data from WoS, JCR, and OpenCitations. We analyzed the distribution, correlation, and ranking changes of each index and explored the evaluation effect of RDI and JNDI on the paper level and journal level. [Findings] RDI, which is least affected by the number of references, has the best mathematical properties and evaluation effect among all the D variants. JNDI has advantages over JDI in distribution characteristics and stability. JNDI can distinguish subtle differences between journals. JNDI has a moderately weak positive correlation with the impact metrics. The journals’ JNDI rankings are quite different from the JIF rankings. [Conclusions] JNDI can be used as an index to evaluate the innovation of journals. It is robust and can be applied to interdisciplinary evaluation scenarios. JNDI combined with the impact metrics can identify innovative journals and avoid them being underestimated due to unpopular research fields, non-English-speaking countries, etc. The accuracy of JNDI will be affected by database coverage and journal classification issues, so special attention should be paid when applying JNDI.
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[Purposes] This study explores the citation advantage of preprints published by highly cited scholars and compares this advantage with their journal article citation advantage, aiming to reveal and understand the role of author reputation in the dissemination and diffusion of preprints. [Methods] Taking preprints from the platforms arXiv, bioRxiv, and medRxiv as the research objects, we group together preprints that were posted on the same platform in the same year and subsequently published in the same journal within that year. Within each group, the primary author of the most highly cited preprint is defined as a highly cited scholar, while authors whose citation counts are more than 1% lower than that of the highly cited scholar are defined as non-highly cited scholars. Linear regression models were used to compare the citation differences between preprints authored by highly cited scholars and non-highly cited scholars, as well as the differences after formal journal publication. [Findings] Preprints and journal articles published by highly cited scholars both exhibit a citation advantage, with the citation advantage being more pronounced in journal articles than in preprints. [Conclusions] Author reputation plays a crucial role in the dissemination and diffusion of preprints, as preprints published by highly cited scholars receive more attention and citations. It is recommended that preprint platforms optimize their recommendation algorithms to enhance the fairness of scientific communication.
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[Purposes] This paper aims to explore the construction of efficiency tracking indicators and enhancement strategies for the effectiveness of international editorial board members in English scientific journals and conduct an effectiveness analysis, providing a reference for the international development of first-class English scientific journals. [Methods] Based on the development practice of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, this paper sorted out and constructed the efficiency tracking indicators for the in ternational editorial board members, analyzed the internal and external causes of decreased efficiency, and proposed strategies for enhancing their efficiency. [Findings] In the international development of first-class English scientific journals, the proposed efficiency tracking indicators and enhancement strategies for the international editorial board members can effectively improve their efficiency, stimulate their work enthusiasm, and overall enhance the commitment of the international editorial board members. [Conclusions] First-class English scientific journals should attach importancetotracking and enhancing the efficiency of international editorial board members, making further improvement on the strategies for enhancing their efficiency, thereby enhancing the international competitiveness and influence of the journal.