科技期刊发展的一剂猛药？

 

2010年9月7日至8日，第六届中国科技期刊发展论坛在上海举行。新闻出版总署副署长李东东出席论坛并作主题发言。《Nature》杂志在9月15日以“Strong medicine for China's journals”为标题做了报道。但尚没有看到相关的与猛药有关的国内报道。

真心希望我国的科技期刊能够越办越好。正如李副署长所说：“我国科技期刊面临着良好的发展机遇，科技期刊管理者和出版工作者不仅要积极迎接和适应科技发展及国际学术出版竞争的挑战，更要增强责任感和使命感，不断提升我国科技期刊的国际影响力，使其真正成为我国文化建设和科技发展的重要力量。”（引自http://chuban.henanci.com/Pages/2010910152150.shtml）

Scidev.net转述Nature的相关报道说：“在上周（9月7日）在上海举行的一场科学出版人会议上，中国宣布将从“科学技术出版大国转变为科学技术出版强国”。它打算从明年1月开始“终结”弱的期刊，为强的期刊提供财政激励，但是尚未公布具体的实施方案。”（http://www.scidev.net/zh/news/zh-136748.html）

为方便来访的朋友，将Nature文字贴在这儿：

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Strong medicine for China's journals

Weak publications will be 'terminated'.

David Cyranoski

Li Dongdong plans major reforms for Chinese publishing.IMAGINECHINA
Few Chinese scientists would be surprised to hear that many of the country's scientific journals are filled with incremental work, read by virtually no one and riddled with plagiarism. But the Chinese government's solution to this problem came as a surprise last week.

Li Dongdong, a vice-minister of state and deputy director of the General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP) — the powerful government body that regulates all publications in China — acknowledged that the country's scientific publishing had a "severe" problem, with "a big gap between quality and quantity", and needed reform.

Opening a meeting of scientific publishers in Shanghai on 7 September, Li announced that by January 2011, new regulations will be used to "terminate" weak journals.

Precisely how this reform will work is the subject of hot debate. If an evaluation process finds a journal to be weak, it may be forced to close altogether, or relaunch with a different editorial board, a different title or even a different subject focus.

Those journals judged to be strong will receive support such as tax breaks. Scientific publishing will be concentrated in "five-to-ten large publishing groups" that will compete with each other, says Li. "We will turn China from a large science and technology publisher to a powerful science and technology publisher." GAPP did not respond to Nature 's requests for more information.

News of the regulation startled many of the publishers at last week's meeting, the 6th China Science Journal Development Forum. Some believe that bureaucrats should not be interfering with journals, and others say that powerful scientists will resist the move. But all agreed that China's scientific publishing is in bad shape.

Approximately one-third of the roughly 5,000 predominantly Chinese-language journals are 'campus journals', existing only so that graduate students and professors can accumulate the publications necessary for career advancement, according to one senior publisher. And in a Correspondence to Nature last week, Yuehong Zhang of the Journal of Zhejiang University–Science reported that a staggering 31% of the papers submitted to that campus journal contained plagiarized material ( Nature 467, 153; 2010).

Most Chinese journals make their money through funding from their host institutions, and by charging authors per-page publishing fees. "Most are never cited. Who knows if they're even really published. They're ghosts," says one publisher, who declined to be named. Wu Haiyun, a cardiologist at the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing, says that only 5–10% of these journals are worth saving, and the rest are "information pollution".

Most of China's top researchers already forgo Chinese publications for international ones, where they earn the recognition that can promote their career. And they are increasingly successful: in November 2009, scientists from China became the second-most prolific publishers of scientific articles in international scientific journals.

But some Chinese librarians are beginning to baulk at the prices charged by these foreign journals. On 1 September, an open letter signed by 35 librarians criticized foreign science, technology and medicine publishers for "using their monopolistic position" to raise subscription prices annually by more than 14% for the next 3 years. Meanwhile, some of the better Chinese journals are being published in collaboration with foreign companies such as Wiley–Blackwell and Springer, respectively headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, and Berlin. Cell Research, for example, based at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences and co-published by Nature Publishing Group, reached an impact factor of 8.2 in 2009 — the highest in the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia.

Impact factors could provide an important cornerstone of the government's evaluation system. For example, the Chinese Journal Citation Report, published by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China since 2004 and covering some 1,800 of China's top journals, provides impact factors that measure their significance on the basis of the number of times that articles are cited by peers.

Many Chinese journals are switching to publishing in English to increase their impact factors, and more than 200 English-language science and technology journals are now based in China. ACTA Genetica Sinica became the Journal of Genetics and Genomics in 2007; Neuroscience Bulletin, founded in 1998, switched to English in 2006; and in January 2009, Acta Zoologica Sinica, published since 1935 and the second-oldest journal in China, became Current Zoology. In its first year, the proportion of papers that it published from non-Chinese scientists shot up from 16% to 42%. Having earned a spot on the list of journals counted by Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge, the journal is awaiting its first impact factor. Martin Stevens, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, says that Current Zoology is now finding a niche. "Before, there weren't any journals that had this relatively broad audience. Many looked at specific areas of biology," says Stevens, who guest edited a special issue of the journal about how the sensory system relates to evolution.

A minority of Chinese scientists argue that there is no need for Chinese-language primary research journals at all. All original Chinese research should be published in English-language journals to get the widest audience possible, says Wu, who adds that Chinese-language journals should stick to publishing continuing education and review articles. "Is it necessary for China to have its own journals?" he asks.

The government's answer is an emphatic 'yes'. For Li, strong scientific publishing is a necessary "driving force in innovation and technological strength". Once the new reforms are under way, she says, "journals will be a strong part of our soft power".

《Nature》文章中说道：“News of the regulation startled many of the publishers at last week's meeting, the 6th China Science Journal Development Forum. Some believe that bureaucrats should not be interfering with journals, and others say that powerful scientists will resist the move. But all agreed that China's scientific publishing is in bad shape.”

请从此网址访问《Nature》原文：http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100915/full/467261a.html

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上海市日前举行了第六届中国科技期刊发展论坛

来源：中国新闻出版报 作者：金鑫　编辑：孙争

据中国新闻出版报消息，上海市9月7日~8日举行了第六届中国科技期刊发展论坛，全国人大常委会副委员长、中国科协主席韩启德为本次论坛主席。业内专家、学者围绕出版业变革中的中国科技期刊发展之路这一主题进行了深入探讨。中国科技期刊发展论坛是中国科协于2004年创办的一个连续性学术交流品牌项目，是中国科协打造精品科技期刊工程的重要抓手。中国科协书记处书记冯长根出席论坛并致辞，近400位中外嘉宾参加论坛。 　　新闻出版总署副署长李东东出席论坛并作主题发言。李东东指出，在社会主义经济体制不断转变、出版体制不断完善的过程中，科技期刊管理者和出版工作者要进一步转变思想，深化改革，使科技期刊成为我国出版业改革发展的先锋力量。 　　李东东说，科技期刊是我国新闻出版事业的重要组成部分。改革开放以来，广大科技期刊工作者牢记使命，立足本职，扎实工作，为推动我国科技事业的进步作出了积极贡献。但是，与发达国家科技期刊发展规模和质量相比，我国科技期刊仍然存在着一定差距。李东东表示，当前我国新闻出版业正处在一个新的发展阶段，出现了产业融合不断深化、新兴出版势头迅猛、数字技术不断创新、产业形态日趋完善的新形势，科技期刊要借助科研开发以及出版业、传媒业、信息服务业不断发展的推动力，积极实现科技期刊业态转变，获得新的发展动力。 　　李东东指出，科技期刊在发展过程中，一要切实转变资源配置方式，培育和重塑新型市场主体。对已形成规模和具有发展潜力的重点科技期刊要加大扶持力度，予以政策支持，推动优秀科技期刊进一步做大做强。二要积极应用新媒体新技术，获得新的发展动力。科技期刊要利用内容制作的优势，充分运用数字化手段，在刊物的表现形式、为读者服务的功能及延伸期刊的价值上，进行大胆尝试，作引领期刊数字化的表率。三要建立优胜劣汰机制，加大对优秀科技期刊扶持力度。李东东说，新闻出版总署将在完善学术期刊质量评估标准、建立健全学术期刊编辑队伍管理制度、加大对违法违规现象管理处罚力度等方面采取措施，优化学术期刊发展环境，推动学术期刊发展，为学术期刊健康可持续发展创造有利条件。 　　李东东表示，一个国家科技期刊水平，反映了这个国家的科技实力、科技共同体的凝聚力。我国科技期刊面临着良好的发展机遇，科技期刊管理者和出版工作者不仅要积极迎接和适应科技发展及国际学术出版竞争的挑战，更要增强责任感和使命感，不断提升我国科技期刊的国际影响力，使其真正成为我国文化建设和科技发展的重要力量。

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