论文发表内卷了吗?——基于8本教育技术学CSSCI期刊10年(2012—2021)载文的分析

Is There An Involution Phenomenon in Paper Publication?——An Analysis Based on Ten Years(2012—2021) of Papers Published in Eight CSSCI Journals in Educational Technology

学术内卷俨然成为一些学者的“口头禅”,然而,内卷程度究竟如何、成因为何、如何破解,却语焉不详。为探究教育技术领域是否存在学术内卷现象,文章采用文献计量学方法,对8本教育技术学CSSCI期刊2012—2021年间刊发的论文进行定量分析。研究发现,与整个学术圈类似,教育技术学界存在一定程度的学术内卷问题,具体表现为竞争恶化、两极分化、边界固化、追逐热点、简单迁移等。探析学术内卷的形成原因,主要包括:论文发表供需关系的失衡,引发了对论文发表机会的争夺;学术群体论文发表机会不平等,加剧了“马太效应”;外部环境互动匮乏,导致了学科内外循环动力不足;功利导向和量化导向的评价机制催生了内卷乱象。要破解学术内卷问题,需要优化期刊建设,减少“马太效应”的影响;加强跨学科、跨区域合作研究,实现内外循环联动发展;拓宽国际合作渠道,打造教育信息化类期刊国际合作的新机制;建立多元科研评价标准,降低评价异化的影响。

Academic involution has become a "pet phrase" among some scholars. However, it is not clear what the extent of the involution is, what the causes are, and how to crack them. In order to investigate whether there is academic involution in the field of educational technology, this paper employs bibliometric methods to quantitatively analyze the papers published in eight CSSCI journals in educational technology between 2012-2021. It was found that, similar to the academic circle as a whole, there is a certain degree of academic involution in educational technology, which is manifested by worsening competition, polarization, solidification of boundaries, chasing hot spots, and simple migration. The main reasons for the formation of academic involution include: the imbalance between supply and demand for publications, which triggers the competition for publication opportunities;the unequal opportunities for publication of academic groups, which intensifies the "Matthew Effect";the lack of interaction in the external environment, which leads to a lack of internal and external circulation in the discipline;and the utilitarian and quantitative-oriented evaluation mechanism, which gives rise to the involution chaos. In order to resolve the problem of academic involution, we need to optimize the construction of journals to reduce the influence of the "Matthew effect", to strengthen interdisciplinary and cross-regional cooperation in research to realize the development of internal and external circulation, to broaden international cooperation channels and create a new mechanism for international cooperation of educational technology journals, and to establish multiple research evaluation standards to reduce the influence of evaluation alienation.