编辑部偏爱、关系稿与引用率贴水——来自中国经济学权威期刊的证据

Editorial Favoritism,Guanxi Articles and Citation Discount——Evidence from Top Chinese Economics Journals

学术期刊规范化、公平化管理是学术进步的重要保障,期刊编辑部如果偏爱某些机构或群体,大量录用"关系稿",会严重妨碍学术进步。本文通过对2001年至2012年12种中国经济学权威期刊上发表的19 000多篇学术论文的文献计量学分析,发现中国经济学权威期刊编辑部偏爱该期刊隶属单位研究人员形成的"关系稿"引用率会比其他论文低15.2%,下载率也会低8.3%。进一步分析则表明"关系稿"的贴水现象近年来有所缓解,中国经济学权威期刊的规范化、公平化有所进步。

To enhance the academic research,it is of great importance to manage academic journals impartially.In this paper,we employ bibliometric analysis of more than 19 000 articles published in 12 top Chinese economic journals from 2001 to 2012 to study the effect of editorial favoritism towards some institutions and groups.We find that editorial departments of core economics journals prefer to articles by authors in the same unit with editorial department,which are called ＂guanxi（connected）articles＂.Besides,citation rate and download rate of＂connected articles＂is 15.2% and 8.3% lower than ＂unconnected articles＂,respectively.However,more regression results indicate the reduction of citation discount of connected articles,which shows inch-by-inch progress of the economics journals in China.