学术期刊更正文献的特征分析

Characteristic analysis on documents of academic journal corrections

【目的】学术期刊更正是学术界自我纠错的重要方式,其产生的更正文献包含大量的纠错信息,具有重要的研究价值。对更正文献的分布特点与规律予以分析和揭示,以期加强科研工作者对更正文献的了解和利用,完善学术期刊对论文更正的规范与管理,从而加强学术界与期刊界对更正行为本身以及更正文献的关注,并为后续的相关研究提供借鉴与参考。【方法】选取Web of Science核心合集数据库中近十年的更正文献记录,从年度分布、国家分布、学科分布、期刊分布四个角度对更正文献进行文献计量学分析。【结果】分析发现,近十年来,更正文献的总量逐年攀升,进入高速增长阶段。在国家分布上,更正文献广泛分布在全球184个国家和地区,且高度集中在科研实力较为发达的国家;就其学科分布而言,更正文献具有显著的分散性特点,几乎涵盖了全部的学科;在期刊分布上,更正文献广泛分布在9000余种期刊,且集中分布于高质量优秀期刊。【结论】更正文献是科学研究中不容忽视的文献类型之一,学术期刊应从更正文献的发布、传播与引用三个角度予以规范;此外,各领域专家学者应积极参与,发挥其群体智慧;同时,应采用开放评审,提升论文质量,完善期刊建设,促进学术信息交流的健康有序发展。

[ Purposes] The correction of academic journals is an important way of the academic community＇s self-correction, which produces correction documents containing a large number of correcting information, which has significant value of research. This paper analyzes and reveals the characteristic of the correction documents, aiming at enhancing the researchers to understand and utilize the correction documents, improving the regulation and management of corrections for the academic journals, accordingly reminding the academic and journal community to pay more attention to the correction behavior and correction documents, and finally providing a reference for future relevant researches. [ Methods ] The article selected the collection records in the database of Web of Science Core Collection during the past ten years, and analyzed them from four aspects of year distribution, country distribution, subject distribution and journal distribution. [Findings] The analyses show that the summation of correction records has been growing every year in the last ten years, and the corrections are coming to the rapid growth stage. In country distribution, corrections are widely distributed in 184 countries and regions, and highly concentrated in the developed country of scientific research; as for subject distribution, the corrections have significantly decentralization, which cover most of the subjects ; in journal distribution, corrections are widely distributed in more than 9000 journals, and concentrated in high quality journals. [ Conclusions] The correction document is one of the document types which cannot be ignored. Academic journals should regulate the corrections from the aspects of releasing, disseminating and citing; experts in various fields should participate actively and develop their group wisdom. Moreover, we should advocate open review in order to enhance the quality of papers, improve journals＇ constructions and promote the healthy and orderly development of the academic information exchange.