Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank.
Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank.
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DOI：
10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Munafò M
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文献类型：
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作者：
Brembs B;Button K;Munafò M
大多数研究人员承认，他们向其提交论文的学术期刊(“期刊排名”)具有内在的等级关系，因此他们不仅调整了论文的提交，还相应地调整了他们的阅读策略。另一方面，关于将期刊排名制度化作为一种影响衡量标准的负面影响，已经写了很多文章。到目前为止，关于期刊排名作为科学影响评估工具的局限性的辩论的贡献要么缺乏数据，要么只依赖于少数几项研究。在这篇综述中，我们提供了关于我们目前的学术交流系统在各种科学质量衡量标准(如效用/引文、方法的可靠性、专家评级或撤回)方面的后果的最新和相关的数据。这些数据证实了之前的假设：使用期刊排名作为评估工具是糟糕的科学实践。此外，这些数据让我们认为，任何期刊排名(不仅是目前最受欢迎的影响因素)都会产生这种负面影响。因此，我们建议完全放弃期刊，转而采用基于图书馆的学术交流系统，这最终将是必要的。这一新系统将利用现代信息技术极大地改进现有期刊系统的过滤、分类和发现功能。
Most researchers acknowledge an intrinsic hierarchy in the scholarly journals (“journal rank”) that they submit their work to, and adjust not only their submission but also their reading strategies accordingly. On the other hand, much has been written about the negative effects of institutionalizing journal rank as an impact measure. So far, contributions to the debate concerning the limitations of journal rank as a scientific impact assessment tool have either lacked data, or relied on only a few studies. In this review, we present the most recent and pertinent data on the consequences of our current scholarly communication system with respect to various measures of scientific quality (such as utility/citations, methodological soundness, expert ratings or retractions). These data corroborate previous hypotheses: using journal rank as an assessment tool is bad scientific practice. Moreover, the data lead us to argue that any journal rank (not only the currently-favored Impact Factor) would have this negative impact. Therefore, we suggest that abandoning journals altogether, in favor of a library-based scholarly communication system, will ultimately be necessary. This new system will use modern information technology to vastly improve the filter, sort and discovery functions of the current journal system.
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