学术会议质量综合评价研究及实践

Research and practice on comprehensive quality evaluation of academic conferences

学术会议活动在国家创新体系建设、学科交流与发展、科研人员成长过程中扮演着极为重要的角色。针对传统学术会议质量评价方法中存在的学术性要素不突出、适用领域狭窄等问题,提出了一种综合采用参会者定性反馈、会议定量特征分析、会议影响力大数据分析等评价信息源的质量评价框架,并对2018年举办的700余场国内学术会议开展了质量综合评价实践。结果表明,中国学术会议呈规模持续增长、内容质控愈发严格、互动交流效果进一步突出、成果类型及传播方式进一步丰富等趋势,但不同学科、不同规模学术会议间质量差异较为显著,不同职称、不同国籍参会者对会议质量的感知存在明显差别。根据评价结果,从面向参会者诉求、优化会议组织及完善学会机制建设等方面提出了学术会议的质量提升建议。

Academic conferences play a very important role in the construction of national innovation system,development of disciplines and growth of scientific researchers.In recent years,the overall scale of China’s academic conference activities has increased rapidly but problems such as uneven quality and lack of standards have become increasingly obvious.Therefore,conference organizers,managers and participants urgently need an evaluation means to judge the quality of academic conferences.In view of the problems of the traditional academic conference quality evaluation methods,such as lack of prominent academic elements and narrow application fields,this study proposes a quality evaluation framework which comprehensively uses the evaluation information sources including participants’qualitative feedback,quantitative characteristics data of the conference,and social influence big data analysis,and conducts a comprehensive quality evaluation covering more than 700 academic conferences held in China in 2018.The results indicate that the scale of academic conferences in China is increasing continuously,that the quality control of content is stricter and the effect of interactive communication is more prominent,and that the types of outcome and dissemination methods are further enriched.However,there are significant differences in quality among academic conferences of different disciplines and scales.And there are obvious differences in the perception of conference quality among participants of different titles and nationalities.According to the evaluation results,this paper proposes three ways to improve the quality of China’s academic conferences,that is,considering the demands of participants,optimizing conference organization,and improving the mechanism of the academic society.