医学期刊中审稿专家拒审情况的调查分析

Investigation of the medical periodicals' experts refusing to review articles

【目的】了解医学期刊中专家拒审稿件的发生情况,剖析其原因和规律,以期为减少拒审率寻找有效对策。【方法】选取《中华微生物学和免疫学杂志》2013—2014年两年内的收录稿件为研究对象,统计并分析所有送审稿件中被专家拒审稿件的频次,总结其主要原因,分析医学类期刊审稿专家的审稿习惯并统计拒审发生的周期。【结果】数据分析表明,50%以上的编辑送审行为均存在被拒审的情况;排在前3位的拒审理由为专业不符、判断不明和工作繁忙,超过三分之一的稿件拒审行为集中发生在每年的6~8月份;近半数审稿专家的个人信息填写不完整,给编辑的送审工作带来了不少困难。【结论】医学期刊中审稿专家拒审情况普遍存在。编辑部应面对外审专家不同的拒审原因,提出合理可行的解决方案,采取有效措施促进医学期刊的长远发展。

[Purposes] This paper aims to understand the reason about medical periodicals＇ experts refusing to reviewarticles,analyze the laws of the occurrence situation,and look for some ways to deal with the difficulties. [Methods] All the data was hand-picked for this job from Chinese Journal of Microbiology and Immunology during the period of 2013 and 2014. A summary of all objects on the data bases were given first,then the statistics were broken down class by class. The reviewhabits and cycles of experts were summarized by using the mathematical and statistical method. [Findings] From the samples,more than 50%reviewing behavior is rejected,and the reason is that they are too busy to do their job,and they are not good at this articles. More than 1 /3 events occur from June to August every year. Nearly half of all experts＇ personal information such as cell phone numbers and emails are not completed. [Conclusions]It is pervasive in too many medical journals that experts refuse to reviewarticles. We will find a way to make our suggestions politely,and do the best for the medical journals.