Scientific journals still matter in the era of academic search engines and preprint archives
Scientific journals still matter in the era of academic search engines and preprint archives
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DOI：
10.1002/asi.24326
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发表时间：
2019-12
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Lanu Kim;Jason Portenoy;Jevin D. West;K. Stovel
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作者：
Lanu Kim;Jason Portenoy;Jevin D. West;K. Stovel
期刊在科学过程中起着至关重要的作用，因为它们评估收到的论文的质量，并为搜索提供组织过滤器。然而，期刊的作用受到了质疑，因为新的预印档案和学术搜索引擎使查找独立于发表文章的期刊的文章变得更容易。文章质量和期刊声誉之间错综复杂的关系使得对这一问题的研究变得复杂起来。我们提出了一个与杂志声誉或影响因素无关的衡量个别文章质量的创新指标：在arxiv.org上发布的预印本的引文数量。使用这一方法来研究早期采用arxiv的物理学的三个子领域，我们表明，先前对期刊声誉对个别文章影响的影响(通过引文衡量)的估计可能被夸大了。虽然我们发现，与前几年相比，这些子领域的高质量预印本现在不太可能在期刊上发表，但我们发现几乎没有系统的证据表明，期刊声誉对文章表现的作用有所下降。
Journals play a critical role in the scientific process because they evaluate the quality of incoming papers and offer an organizing filter for search. However, the role of journals has been called into question because new preprint archives and academic search engines make it easier to find articles independent of the journals that publish them. Research on this issue is complicated by the deeply confounded relationship between article quality and journal reputation. We present an innovative proxy for individual article quality that is divorced from the journal's reputation or impact factor: the number of citations to preprints posted on arXiv.org. Using this measure to study three subfields of physics that were early adopters of arXiv, we show that prior estimates of the effect of journal reputation on an individual article's impact (measured by citations) are likely inflated. While we find that higher‐quality preprints in these subfields are now less likely to be published in journals compared to prior years, we find little systematic evidence that the role of journal reputation on article performance has declined.