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以下是Nature的一篇新闻报道，大致意思讲最近几年中国在高影响因子期刊上发表的论文越来越多，可能有一个原因是作者单位对在高影响因子期刊上的作者给予奖励。在中国，如果编辑能够提高期刊影响因子也会得到奖励。在这种诱惑下，期刊编辑有可能会强迫作者引用期刊论文，或者造成某些期刊之间的非科学的相互引用，而这都是有违出版道德的。
这篇报道的信息来源于Shao等2011年在Learned Publishing上的一篇论文（原文的题目是《中国学术论文外流：为什么会这样，可以阻止吗？》很佩服Nature编辑的视角）。文章的内容对于国内大部分的科研人员与编辑来说并不是新鲜事。
这篇文章在ALPSP的网站上开放下载，故转帖于此。The outflow of academic papers.pdf
Cash puts publishing ethics at risk in China
The number of scientific papers published in China in recent years has increased exponentially (see go.nature.com/8fjhdt). There are concerns that these numbers are being inflated by a payment scheme offered by some Chinese institutions to boost publication in journals with high impact factors (J. Shao and H. Shen Learned Publ. 24, 95–97; 2011).
Such monetary incentives could adversely affect scientific publishing behaviour in China. Payments to editors to improve the impact factor of their journal, for example, could encourage them to coerce authors into citing more articles from that journal (see go.nature.com/ye2gae). Or it could result in citation cartels in which journals cite each other for mutual benefit (see, for instance, go.nature.com/p4u8on).
These schemes risk disrupting the drive to reduce ethical issues that undermine Chinese science.
Sarah Huggett Elsevier, Oxford, UK. s.huggett@elsevier.com
https://m.sciencenet.cn/blog-3176-625403.html
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