正确处理学术期刊中的两对关系

Correctly Handle Two Pairs of Relationship in Academic Journals

文章探讨了学术期刊如何处理载文量与被引量的关系以提高影响因子、如何处理作者需求与读者需求的关系以提高期刊整体质量两大问题。文章首先认为,本学科优质论文的产出基本是一个常数,但它并不是各期刊平均分摊的常数,而表现为期刊通过竞争来获取的变数,故不可盲目通过压缩载文量来提高影响因子,也不可盲目扩大载文量。在恰当把握载文量与被引量关系的基础上,努力提高论文质量才是提高影响因子最根本的策略。同时,文章以马斯洛需求层次理论分析了作者与读者的安全需求、归属与尊重的需求、自我实现的需求;编辑应利用作者这些需求中的正面激励因素,满足作者的合理需求,遏制其消极因素,提高期刊质量,最终满足读者需求。

The paper explores two issues in academic journals. One is how to treat the relationship between quantity of published articles and citation quantity so as to promote impact factors, the other is how to treat the relationship between readers＇ requirement and writers＇ requirement so as to raise the quality of journals. This paper concludes that the output of excellent paper in some discipline is a constant, but it is impossible for every journal to get the same number of excellent papers and the number of excellent papers got competitively by journa, ls is a variable. That means journals should not limit the number of their publications to create an artificial scarcity to raise their impact factors. Of course, journals should not enlarge the number of their pubhcations. The basic strategy for editors to raise journals＇ impact factors is to choose and publish high quality articles on the basis of dealing well with the relationship between the number of publications and the number of citations. Meantime, this paper uses Maslow＇s hierarchy of needs to analyze the needs for safety, belonging and esteem, self-actualization of writers and readers. The paper shows that the editors should make use of the positive needs to motivate the writers so as to promote the quality of journals which at last meet the needs of the readers.