学术期刊引文与作者的博弈:来自医学的警示

IF 1.9 4区 社会学 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
S. Macdonald
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摘要

使用定量绩效指标来衡量学术出版的质量,削弱了同行评议对提交给期刊的文章的定性评估。如果最常见的指标——引文(期刊影响因子的基础)不那么容易受到游戏的影响,这两者可能会和谐共存。引文博弈在学术出版中普遍存在,而审稿人对此无能为力。文章给出了一些关于引文游戏是如何进行的指示。然后,它从一般的学术出版转向医学学术出版,这是一个作者身份也被玩弄的学科。医学领域的许多作者对以他们的名字命名的文章没有任何有意义的贡献,而那些贡献最大的人往往没有被列为作者。作者的位置是公开买卖的。这个问题被学术出版业和学术机构放大了,他们乐于假装同行评议是在保护学术。与此形成鲜明对比的是,医学主要期刊的编辑们严厉批评医学同行评议是多么无效。其他学科也应注意,以免落入医学正在沉沦的泥潭。
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The gaming of citation and authorship in academic journals: a warning from medicine
The use of quantitative performance indicators to measure quality in academic publishing has undercut peer review’s qualitative assessment of articles submitted to journals. The two might have co-existed quite amicably were the most common indicator, citation, on which the journal impact factor is based, not been so susceptible to gaming. Gaming of citations is ubiquitous in academic publishing and referees are powerless to prevent it. The article gives some indication of how the citation game is played. It then moves on from academic publishing in general to look at academic publishing in medicine, a discipline in which authorship is also gamed. Many authors in medicine have made no meaningful contribution to the article that bears their names, and those who have contributed most are often not named as authors. Author slots are openly bought and sold. The problem is magnified by the academic publishing industry and by academic institutions, pleased to pretend that peer review is safeguarding scholarship. In complete contrast, the editors of medicine’s leading journals are scathing about just how ineffectual is peer review in medicine. Other disciplines should take note lest they fall into the mire in which medicine is sinking.
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来源期刊
CiteScore
2.60
自引率
0.00%
发文量
17
期刊介绍: Social Science Information is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research in the social sciences at large with special focus on theoretical debates, methodology and comparative and (particularly) cross-cultural research.
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