Are nationally oriented journals indexed in Scopus becoming more international? The effect of publication language and access modality
Are nationally oriented journals indexed in Scopus becoming more international? The effect of publication language and access modality
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DOI：
10.1016/j.joi.2020.101011
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发表时间：
2020-05-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Lopez-Illescas, Carmen
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作者：
Moed, Henk F.;de Moya-Anegon, Felix;Lopez-Illescas, Carmen
一个探索性的描述性分析，提出了科学学术期刊的国家取向，反映在出版或引用作者的隶属关系。它计算了Scopus中涵盖的期刊的国家方向指数（INO），并分析了INO值在学科和国家之间的分布，以及INO值与期刊影响因子之间的相关性。该研究没有发现可靠的证据表明期刊影响因子是衡量期刊国际性的良好指标，因为期刊的国家定位与其引用影响之间的关系被发现是倒U形的。此外，以英语出版的期刊在出版或引用作者的从属关系方面不一定面向国际;在社会科学和人文科学方面，美国也有其面向国家的文献。本文探讨了在何种程度上进入Scopus在早些年面向国家的期刊，近年来已成为更加国际化。结果发现，在研究中，约40%的此类期刊确实显示出国际化的痕迹，而使用英语作为出版语言和开放获取（OA）状态是重要的决定因素。(C)2020爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
An exploratory-descriptive analysis is presented of the national orientation of scientific-scholarly journals as reflected in the affiliations of publishing or citing authors. It calculates for journals covered in Scopus an Index of National Orientation (INO), and analyses the distribution of INO values across disciplines and countries, and the correlation between INO values and journal impact factors. The study did not find solid evidence that journal impact factors are good measures of journal internationality in terms of the geographical distribution of publishing or citing authors, as the relationship between a journal's national orientation and its citation impact is found to be inverse U-shaped. In addition, journals publishing in English are not necessarily internationally oriented in terms of the affiliations of publishing or citing authors; in social sciences and humanities also USA has their nationally oriented literatures. The paper examines the extent to which nationally oriented journals entering Scopus in earlier years, have become in recent years more international. It is found that in the study set about 40 per cent of such journals does reveal traces of internationalization, while the use of English as publication language and an Open Access (OA) status are important determinants. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.