中国的和尚与美国的经——关于SCI与中国学术评价机制的几点看法

Chinese Monks and American Scripture:Remarks on SCI and Chinese Academic Evaluation Mechanism

以全球知名检索工具《科学引文索引》(science citation index,SCI)为代表的学术评价工具在中国受到了很多学者的质疑,从而引发了关于SCI与学术评价的论战。对这一问题的讨论和分析应当首先解决的几个问题是,我们是不是需要SCI?SCI是否适合中国的科研现实?SCI的引入对我国科研质量是否有所改善?什么能够取代SCI?这些问题的分析除了依靠逻辑推演外,更应依靠我国发表SCI论文的相关统计数据等实证资料。解决我国当前学术评价问题应从体制机制入手,把学术成果的定性评价与SCI的定量评价有机地结合起来,着力于从质和量两个方面推动我国科技进步。

Academic indexing tools represented by the world renown science citation index （SCI） are being suspected by a considerable amount of intellectuals in China,which has caused a debate on SCI and academic evaluation.Several primary questions to be addressed include：Do we need SCI？ Is SCI allied with the current scientific research situation in China？ Whether the introduction of SCI improve the quality of Chinese scientific research？ What can substitute SCI？ The analysis of these questions depends more on our publication situation and related statistics than on logical deduction.The solution for the problem of Chinese academic evaluation should start from the mechanism and institutionalization,and embraces the combination of qualitative and quantitative methodology to raise the level of our country＇s scientific research.