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Abstract
h-indexes, Journal Impact Factors and CiteScores are often presented as a single numeric value, without providing any context. Under such circumstances, the reader is unable to fully appreciate, or comprehend, the information being presented. By not being transparent, it also presents the opportunity for unscrupulous operators, such as predatory journals, to provide non-sensical information in the hope that the potential author will misinterpret it and submit an article in the expectation that they are submitting to a high-quality journal. Dubious metrics are also able to enter the sector, again in the hope that their metric will be read under an incorrect assumption. Following an overview of the main metrics that are commonly used, this paper suggests how these metrics should be cited. Adopting these proposals would not only provide the reader will full information but also enable bogus measures, which have proliferated in recent years, to be recognized more easily.
h 指数、期刊影响因子和 CiteScores 通常以单一数值呈现,不提供任何背景信息。在这种情况下,读者无法充分了解或理解所呈现的信息。由于不透明,这也为掠夺性期刊等不法经营者提供了提供非感性信息的机会,他们希望潜在作者误解这些信息,并期望将文章投给高质量期刊。可疑的指标也能进入这一领域,同样是希望其指标能在错误的假设下被解读。在概述了常用的主要度量标准之后,本文就如何引用这些度量标准提出了建议。采用这些建议不仅能为读者提供完整的信息,还能更容易地识别近年来层出不穷的虚假指标。
期刊介绍:
Publishing Research Quarterly is an international forum for the publication of original peer-reviewed papers covering significant research on and analyses of the full range of the publishing environment. The journal provides analysis of content development, production, distribution, and marketing of books, magazines, journals, and online information services in relation to the social, political, economic, and technological conditions that shape the publishing process, extending from editorial decision-making to order processing to print and online delivery. Publishing Research Quarterly publishes significant research reports and analyses of industry trends, covering topics such as product development, marketing, financial aspects, and print and online distribution as well as the relationship between publishing activities and publishing’s constituencies among industry, government, and consumer communities. Scholarly articles, research reports, review papers, essays, surveys, memoirs, statistics, letters, and notes that contribute to knowledge about how different sectors of the publishing industry operate are published as well as book reviews.