Rigour and quality: the secrets behind a scientific journal on the rise

Skull base surgery Pub Date : 2019-09-25 DOI:10.25518/1780-4507.18108

C. Vermeulen, G. Berben, B. Pochet

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With the bibliometric tools now at our disposal, it is easy to regularly monitor the evolution of our articles’ citation numbers. This therefore generated expectations, which were more than fulfilled when the official news came out last July: with an impact factor of 1.23 in 2018, our journal has crossed the symbolic threshold of 1. This impact factor remains modest for a generalist journal in the field of agronomy, but nevertheless it means we rank first among bilingual (French and English) scientific journals in this field. The evolution of BASE since 1997 reflects the constant concern for quality that drives the editorial and publishing boards. The Editorial Board has recently been renewed and will soon welcome members from other Belgian universities. The rigour in the selection of articles for publication translates to a decreasing total number of published articles: the rejection rate is in the high range of 70 to 90%. Moreover, the internal process for handling manuscripts is constantly evolving; for example, a new and strengthened procedure will improve the tracking of citations in journals known to be predatory. In addition, a new version of the manuscript management software, OJS, has just been put online. Finally, the switch from paper to fully digital is planned for 2020. These decisions and developments do not solve all the weaknesses identified in last year's editorial (Pochet et al., 2018), but the significant increase in the number of citations shows that BASE

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严谨与质量:科学期刊崛起背后的秘密

随着文献计量工具现在在我们的处置，很容易定期监测我们的文章引用数的演变。因此，这产生了人们的期望，当去年7月官方消息发布时，人们的期望得到了满足:2018年的影响因子为1.23，我们的期刊已经越过了1的象征性门槛。这个影响因子对于农学领域的通才期刊来说仍然是适度的，但这意味着我们在该领域的双语(法语和英语)科学期刊中排名第一。自1997年以来，BASE的发展反映了对质量的持续关注，这推动了编辑和出版委员会。编辑委员会最近得到了更新，不久将欢迎来自比利时其他大学的成员。在选择发表文章时的严格程度转化为发表文章总数的减少:退稿率在70%到90%的高范围内。此外，处理手稿的内部程序也在不断发展;例如，一个新的和加强的程序将改善对已知掠夺性期刊引用的跟踪。此外，新版本的稿件管理软件OJS刚刚上线。最后，从纸质到全数字化的转变计划在2020年完成。这些决定和发展并不能解决去年社论中指出的所有弱点(Pochet et al.， 2018)，但引用数量的显着增加表明BASE

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