Effect of cooperation between Chinese scientific journals and international publishers on journals’ impact factor

Shuhua Wang; Hengjun Wang; Paul R. Weldon

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2009.11.008

Effect of cooperation between Chinese scientific journals and international publishers on journals’ impact factor

Shuhua Wang, Hengjun Wang, Paul R. Weldon

Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

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Abstract

Growing cooperation between Chinese journals and international publishers invites an investigation of the effect of this cooperation, based on an analysis of journal IF changes. Data from 23 Chinese academic journals were chosen from about 50 English-language academic journals indexed by SCI or SCIE and with a long history of cooperation. The data do not suggest that cooperation has improved the journals’ IF thus far. It appears that cooperation is generally limited to international distribution, and this has a weak influence on the quality of the journal and its IF, even though the papers can be accessed by worldwide users through publishers’ international distribution networks. Cooperation with international publishers is one step, but actively working on the quality of the journals is a more important step.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Informetrics
Volume	4
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2009.11.008
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2010

Keywords

Bibliometrics
Chinese scientific journals
Impact factor
International publishers
Publishing

Disciplines

Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
International and Intercultural Communication
Publishing
Scholarly Publishing

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