[Purposes] This research aims to explore the future direction of the integration of artificial intelligence and scientific journals, and to construct the intelligent publishing mode of scientific journals. [Methods] We discussed the connotation, development direction, and difficulties of intelligent publishing for scientific journals. [Finding] The publishing of scientific journals combines artificial intelligence, such as data collecting, machine learning, speech and image recognition, and intelligent algorithm, to upgrade and optimize scientific journal publishing process, which can realize topic selection planning from experience to calculation, from auxiliary to autonomous content production, from complicated to efficient editing and processing, from rough to precise dissemination, from flat to scene reading experience, and from mass to customized content services. In the process of smart publishing, there may be problems such as lack of technical resources, risks of copyright and liability, and unclear boundaries of data algorithms, which should be given high priority and coordinated. [Conclusions] It is undeniable that the integrated development of artificial intelligence and scientific journals is the general trend of the publishing industry in the near future, which is expected to establish a smart model for scientific publishing.
[Purposes] This paper aims to analyze the advantages and problems of Altmetrics applied to the evaluation of scientific journals, and provide reference for improving the evaluation system of scientific journal in China. [Methods] Based on the problems existing in citation evaluation of scientific journals, which were dominated by impact factors, we put forward the advantages, problems, and optimization paths of Altmetrics applied to the evaluation of scientific journals. [Finding] Although Altmetrics has the advantages of abundant information sources and wide coverage in the evaluation of scientific journals, it also has problems such as inconsistent evaluation index system, difficulty in reflecting academic influence, inability to accurately measure the emotional expression of social media, and urgent need to establish a localized evaluation system. [Conclusions] The Altmetrics should be combined with the traditional evaluation method of scientific journals. We should evaluate the influence of scientific journals more accurately and comprehensively by introducing diversified Altmetrics indicators, establishing an integrated and universal evaluation model, and developing Altmetrics tools suitable for China's social media.
[Purposes] Based on literature research and bibliometric analysis, this paper aims to investigate the research status of media convergence of scientific journal publishing in China. [Methods] China Academic Journal Network Publishing Database of CNKI was used as the data source, and CiteSpace software was used. The paper quantity, research hotspot, development trend, distributions of authors, organizations, journals, and keywords of papers in the research field of media convergence of scientific journal publishing in China were analyzed. [Finding] The number of papers on this topic is increased year by year. The researchers and research institutions are scattered, and they do not collaborate much with each other. The focuses of those papers are mainly on digital publishing, new media, media convergence, and editor. [Conclusions] There are two stages of the research which are the digital transformation stage and the media convergence stage. In this field, the editorial department of journals and other related institutes are the mainly research units. And from the increasing trend of publication volume year by year, the media convergence of scientific journal publishing in China is still the research hotspot in the future, especially focusing on the realization of digital publishing process, the training of digital media talents, and the application of new media.
[Purposes] This paper aims to investigate new ideas for academic journal operation in the era of new media. [Methods] Literature review was performed to analyze the current status of the integration of academic journals and new media. From the perspective of academic journal editors, we delved into the details of topic planning, editing, publishing, and distribution, and explored how to incorporate the thoughts of new media into the traditional editing and publishing process of academic journals. [Finding] The academic journals need innovative thinking in the era of new media, and academic editors and new media editors should work together to integrate the new thinking of “fast, rich, beautiful, and interesting” into the whole process of editing and publishing to realize the integrated publishing of academic journals. [Conclusions] The integration of new media thinking into the management of academic journals is a new way for academic journals to stay competitive in the information age.
[Purposes] The application scenario of blockchain technology in the whole scientific research lifecycle is studied, and how to solve the difficult problems faced by scholarly communication and how to support the development of the academic publishing are discussed. [Methods] Starting from the problems which were difficult to solve in scholarly communication, we summarized the advantages and characteristics of blockchain technology. The application scenarios of blockchain technology in the whole scientific research lifecycle were emphatically analyzed through case studies. We tried to explore how the blockchain can help scholarly communication and academic publishing serve the whole scientific research lifecycle. [Finding] Blockchain technology can be applied to all stages of the scientific research lifecycle and record the scientific research process on the premise of ensuring data security, integrity and intellectual property rights, while opening up and recognizing various types of scientific research outputs. [Conclusions] Blockchain technology can solve the problems of reproducibility crisis and lack of open research data in scholarly communication, and become a new driving force of open science.
[Purposes] The number of published papers in Chinese scientific journals has been decreasing year by year. By investigating the number reduction of published papers in some journals, we hope to find out the reasons and effects of "slimming" and provide reference for the development of journals. [Methods] This study was based on the scientific journals sponsored by 71 universities including 41 double first-class universities. The number of papers published in above journals from 2010 to 2017 was counted. Some journals with obvious reduction in the number of published papers were selected, and their annual total page numbers, the ratio of funded papers, and impact factors were investigated. Based on the statistical data, the effect and problems of "slimming" were analyzed, and the reasons for the number reduction of published papers were discussed in combination with some expert interviews. [Finding] Among the 71 journals, the number of published papers increases or decreases slightly in 16 journals, but drops relatively significantly in 55 journals, indicating that the current "slimming" phenomenon of Chinese scientific journals is common. Comparatively speaking, the stronger the strength of the organizer, the more databases are included in the journal, and the more significant the reduction in the number of published papers. There are various reasons for "slimming",however, most of journals do not achieve the goal of "health" by "slimming". [Conclusions] The number reduction of papers does not mean the high academic influence of journals. Rationally setting the amount of papers, improving the academic quality of papers, and creating journal features are the important measures to improve the influence and ensure the healthy development of journals.
[Purposes] This paper aims to explore the ways to improve the effects of the continuing education for scientific journal editors. [Methods] The adaptation situation of the continuing education in the perspective of scientific journal editors was investigated. Advices of the editors for improving the continuing education were requested. The development path of the continuing education for scientific journal editors was discussed. [Finding] The demands of scientific journal editors for the continuing education are diversified. The continuing education for scientific journal editors can be developed in four ways, which are content adaptation, pattern adaption, platform construction, and quality management. Through optimizing curriculum system, enriching educational patterns, constructing online education platform, and establishing quality management and teaching feedback mechanisms, the continuing education can be further improved. [Conclusions] The continuing education for scientific journal editors should fit the development needs and improve the educational effects in order to cultivate talents for the transformation and upgrading of scientific journals.
[Purposes] This study aims to provide references for paper writing norm requirements of representative chemistry journals in China to be in line with international standards. [Methods] According to Journal Citation Reports(2017), seven representative chemistry journals at home and abroad were selected. The differences between domestic and foreign representative journals were compared from the perspective of requirements of each journal for paper title, abstract, text, supporting (supplementary) information, multimedia data, and experimental characterization methods. [Finding] There are obvious differences in the requirements of representative chemistry journals at home and abroad in terms of full-text structure, supporting (supplementary) information and the use of multimedia data, and description of experimental methods and characterization of data. Specifically, the presentation of the paper is manifested in the compactness of article structure, the diversity of result expression, the preciseness of experimental method description, and the standardization of characterization data. [Conclusions] The representative chemical journals published in China still need to be improved in terms of data specification requirements and application of emerging technologies. Referring to the mature journals in the field of chemistry, it is suggested that the representative journals published in China should attach importance to the statement integrity and standardization of experiment and data section, offer support and encourage the application of emerging technologies such as multimedia, strengthen the academic standardization of paper content, and enrich the presentation forms of article content, so as to promote their publishing level.
[Purposes] This paper aims to explore effective measures to enhance the academic influence of high-quality Chinese scientific journals in the field of surveying and mapping and remote sensing. [Methods] Seven publications in the field were used as examples which were awarded the title of international and domestic high impact scientific journals and supported by publication fund of CAS. The data on China National Knowledge Infrastructure and journal official websites were analyzed.[Findings] In the aspect of journal academic quality improvement, Chinese scientific journals should focus on integrating into the front line of scientific research, planning column special issues, and balancing authors to promote the gradual improvement of journals. In the aspect of publication knowledge value-added service, they need to deepen the content resources, improve the website abundance, and activate the agglomeration effect of WeChat platform to promote market development. In the aspect of publication international influence promotion and academic communication, they should attach importance to the inclusion and creation of English periodicals, and strengthen the scientific communication value of publications through the selection of cover and diffusion conference effects. [Conclusions] Chinese scientific journals should pay attention to the integration of characteristics and innovation, promote the value-added sharing of journal content and knowledge service capabilities, and comprehensively enhance the value of decision support and intellectual support of publications in scientific development and sustainable social development.
[Purposes] Based on the comparison of structure and layout between SSCI and CSSCI journals in the area of education, this study aims to provide suggestions for improving the top-level design of journal structure and promoting the internationalized construction of Chinese educational journals. [Methods] We selected 278 SSCI educational journals and 54 CSSCI educational journals to research the disciplinary layout and geographic layout. [Finding] SSCI and CSSCI educational journals cover 18 and 12 subject areas, respectively. SSCI and CSSCI have obvious differences in the fields of general education, special education, educational sociology, education, higher education, and adult education. The research gaps exist on the CSSCI journals in the six subject fields of education history, teaching theory, moral education principles, educational psychology, educational statistics, and educational sociology. The distributions of CSSCI and SSCI show moderate correlation. The geographical distributions of SSCI and CSSCI are not balanced. [Conclusions] The coverage of CSSCI disciplines in China needs to be further improved. The index of education journals has weak subject areas, which needs to strengthen the construction of journals in crossing discipline and emerging discipline. There are many comprehensive education journals indexed by CSSCI, and the construction of professional education journals needs to be accelerated. The consistency of the layout of CSSCI and SSCI education journals needs to be improved, and the international development trend needs to be closely followed. The regional balanced development of education journals needs to be improved.
[Purposes] This paper aims to reflect the academic characteristics of the humanities with "author" as the core in the evaluation of journals, and reveal the journal achievements of their missions and goals in multiple dimensions. [Methods] Taking Chinese language and literature as the analytic object, we collected the journal (collection) data of their secondary disciplines by the literature research, expert interview, questionnaire survey, and bibliometric methods, the qualitative indicators obtained from the survey were quantified, and after that we constructed the evaluation system. The academic collections were innovatively incorporated into the evaluation system. [Finding] We put forward the evaluation method of "evaluating articles by author and evaluating journals by articles". We think the academic influence of journals is determined by the influence of the authors of articles published in journals, that is, the more the journal gathers core authors, the more articles published by core authors, the higher the academic influence of the journal. We use the intensity of core authors and academic influence based on core authors as main index, and use the annual average institutional variance, interdisciplinary citations, and five-year impact factors as auxiliary indexes, to reveal the characteristics of journals & collections from multiple dimensions. [Conclusions] This study provides new perspective to evaluate journals of humanities, and the proposed evaluation method can provide references to construct and improve the evaluation system of humanity journals in China.
[Purposes] This paper aims to investigate the correlation between red point factor and other 21 evaluation indicators in medical comprehensive journals and discuss the effective ways to improve the red point factor. [Methods] Medical comprehensive journals in Chinese S&T Journal Citation Reports (2018 Edition) were selected as the study samples, and the correlation between red point factor and other evaluation indicators were did by Spearman correlation analysis. [Finding] Red point factor is positively correlated to total citation, number of citing journals, authority factor, literature quantity, literature selection rate, quantity of AR papers, area distributing number, organization distributing number, discipline diffusion index, discipline influence index, and centrifugal rate of total citation, but it is negatively correlated to diffusion factor, cited half-life, and citing half-life. There is no correlation between red point factor and impact factor, immediacy index, non-self-cited rate, open factor, ratio of fund article, comprehensive evaluation score, and centrifugal rate of impact factor. [Conclusions] Red point factor is suitable as an important indicator for the journal evaluation. It is important for improving the visibility of papers and enhancing academic communication ability and academic authority. It can be improved by controlling the number of published papers, focusing on the timeliness of references, carefully selecting keywords of papers, and so on.
[Purposes] This paper aims to investigate the status and analyze the characteristics about published papers of university journals of natural science. [Methods] Based on the journal evaluation indexes, seven representative university journals were selected, and their published papers from 2006 to 2017 in CNKI database were used as data sources. The areas, the institutions, and the authors of published papers were analyzed from three aspects: the number of published papers, the frequency of citations,and the frequency of downloads. According to the characteristics, the direction of improving the quality of university journals was discussed. [Finding] The authors of the seven university journals are mainly from the journal-sponsored university and their region, especially in-house researchers with these universities. However, the papers with high attention are mostly from other universities or regions. [Conclusions] The relationship between university journals and regional academic development is extremely close. University journals should retain high-quality papers of their regions and journal-sponsored universities, attach importance to high-quality papers of other universities related to key disciplines in journal-sponsored universities, support the construction of disciplines in universities through inter-school cooperation, and enhance the influence of university journals.
[Purposes] To evaluate the scientific research output reasonably for institutions and avoid the phenomenon of "equally contributed" authorship byline developing into a novel form of academic misconduct, this study gives the the practical suggestions based on solid data. [Methods] This study focused on three relatively independent fields of biology subject, i.e., zoology, botony, and chemistry pharmacy. Two journals from each Q1-Q4 quartile of ISI Journal Citation Reports on the Web of Science core collection of zoology, botony, and chemistry pharmacy subjects, respectively, in total of 24 scientific journals were randomly selected. Then, the quantity and percentage of the original research articles and review articles with "equally contributed" authorship bylines in 2008 and 2017 were analyzed with the instructions to authors and website statement. [Finding] The quantity of publications with "equally contributed" authorship bylines in 19 journals is significantly increased in 2017 compared with that in 2008; 14 journals declare that they implement authorship definition of ICMJE/COPE; 22 journals require authors to submit authors' statement regarding each author's contribution and potential competing interests; none of the journals provides any guidance or statement materials regarding "equally contributed" authorships. [Conclusions] We suggest that scientific journals highly recommend authorship definition of ICMJE/COPE and ask for its effective implementation among authors; the scientific output evaluating authorities and scientific publication departments should work together to establish practical administrative measures and rationally recognize authors' specific contributions, so as to avoid the phenomenon of "equally contributed" authorship byline developing into a novel form of academic misconduct and futher enhance publication ethics.
[Purposes] This paper aims to explore the factors with which medical researchers evaluate the influence of journals and their importance degree. [Methods] We selected authors of Chinese Journal of Neuromedicine from the information management platform of Chinese Medical Association and their colleagues (including a total of 226 scientific researchers in medical universities and doctors in hospitals), and performed an investigation using the online questionnaire (Questionnaire Star), which included the basic information of the respondents, the degree and way of cognition about journal evaluation, and the importance scores of the 26 evaluation indexes (18 objective indexes and 8 subjective indexes) of journal influence. [Finding] Expert's recognition is the most important index among all the indicators. The academic influence is the most important index among the subjective indexes, followed by the influence in publishing industry, and social influence. Impact factor is the most important index among the objective indicators. The order of importance is indicator of citation, being included by database, being downloaded, manuscript feature, and timeliness. The paper ratio with provincial-level and the above fund is the most important index among the indicators of manuscript feature. [Conclusions] The development of medical journals should be based on quantitative data, focus on academic quality, improve exposure and positive propagation, and publish the major project results to meet the information needs of researchers. Then journals will become the academic platform most concerned by researchers.