Effect of cooperation between Chinese scientific journals and international publishers on journals’ impact factor |
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| Authors: | Shuhua Wang Hengjun Wang Paul R Weldon |
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| Institution: | Editorial Office of Journal, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China;School of Urban Development and Environmental Engineering, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, Shanghai 201209, PR China;School of Acupuncture and Tuina, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China;Departamento de Física y Matemáticas, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares 28871, Madrid, Spain;School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, 200433, China;Key Laboratory of Mathematical Economics (SUFE), Ministry of Education, Shanghai 200433, China;School of Information Studies, McGill University, 3661 Peel St., Montreal, QC H3A1X1, Canada;École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C3P8, Canada;Department of Information Resource Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China |
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| Abstract: | Growing cooperation between Chinese journals and international publishers invites an investigation of the effect of this cooperation, based on an analysis of journal IF changes. Data from 23 Chinese academic journals were chosen from about 50 English-language academic journals indexed by SCI or SCIE and with a long history of cooperation. The data do not suggest that cooperation has improved the journals’ IF thus far. It appears that cooperation is generally limited to international distribution, and this has a weak influence on the quality of the journal and its IF, even though the papers can be accessed by worldwide users through publishers’ international distribution networks. Cooperation with international publishers is one step, but actively working on the quality of the journals is a more important step. |
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