Recently, a young academic researcher overseas told me one thing worth reporting online, especially for editors of academic journals.Here's the thing: A few months ago, young people saw an announcement from a major international journal that plans to publish an album in the same direction as young people's research.Considering the influence and positive energy of this academic journal in the professional field, especially the high IF value that many evaluation institutions value, young people plan to submit a paper on the latest results to the album.Young people's master's and doctoral postgraduate experience are in well-known overseas universities, and in some famous universities in Europe and the United States did postdoctoral research.
Recently, however, young people told me that he had been notified by the editor that the album would not accept the papers he submitted.Because the album's guest editor is the young man's academic partner, they have collaborated on several academic papers, and this partnership continues to grow.To ensure fair review of the album's papers, no researchers who have worked with the album's guest editors are allowed to submit papers on the album.Young people fully understood the journal's "rule" without any complaints or complaints, and decided instead to submit the paper to the journal's official publication.The positive energy implications of this rule are obvious, and it highlights some of the universal measures taken by international professional academic journals to ensure fairness and fairness in publications.One might say that this rule is a little fussy, superfluous, and a little disbelieving in the ethics and conduct of the album's guest editors.In fact, people are born with selfish thoughts, human feelings, and have two sides, it is human instinct, we can not be human.Therefore, in a just society and the government will establish many laws and regulations to regulate people's behavior, maintain social order and customs, so that society, a huge machine to operate efficiently, will be safe and happy.
In 1999, I published an article entitled "Talking about innovative thinking in scientific research" in the second issue of China Science Foundation."5 - How to quantify the level of scientific achievements" refers to "several cases of publication of papers by scientists in China" and states: "If the evaluation of papers is based on the degree of fairness and rigor, there are probably several cases.At present in China, it is an indisputable fact that the rigorousness and fairness of evaluation are gradually reduced from periodicals to papers published by publishers.As far as I know, some journals account for half of the topics and album papers, or even more, which greatly affects the publication of freelance authors' papers.However, in international publications, this rule is not obvious, although there are albums, but the evaluation process is as fair as that of the regular publication.
It is recalled that 20 years ago an international conference was held in a National Key Laboratory to publicize the outcome of the conference and the convenor decided to select a number of high-quality papers from the abstract for publication in the Proceedings of the British Geological Society.My paper was chosen and I was notified to submit the full English text of the paper.To ensure the English quality of the papers, the organizers also invited experts from the United States Geological Survey to revise and polish the English language.However, after half a year of review, I received the results of the paper review.In the notice given to me, it was pointed out that not many of these papers met the requirements of the special report, so the special report could not be published.However, my paper was internationally peer-reviewed and considered valuable, and they recommended it for publication in a professional academic journal published in the UK and asked for my advice.At that time, SCI papers were being emphasized in China, and I found that the journal had not been included in the SCI database (a few years later, the journal had been included in the SCI).Therefore, I politely decline the recommendation, and finally submit this paper to the Chinese Science-Earth Science English version of China.It was also my passive support for a domestic periodical.Of course, I've also been rejected by an international professional journal for an album.
We should acknowledge that there is still a big gap in fairness and integrity between us and the European and American academic circles. Reducing this gap requires the joint efforts of academic colleagues, including our scientific Internet users.I think of the strict "avoidance system" (avoidance of teacher-student and academic partnerships) in many academic evaluations in Europe and the United States.As far as I know, our country has similar provisions in NFN projects, science and technology awards, and thesis reviews, but the results are not satisfactory, although sometimes unintentional (e.g. inaccurate information).One professor told me about something related to this. His students talked to him over the phone about a review of a manuscript and said excitedly to the teacher, "A manuscript reviewer's opinion was very serious and detailed, which helped him revise his paper.'This reviewer is me, ' the professor said. 'Can I not seriously review the student's paper?I think the factors that affect the fairness and fairness of our academic circles are extremely complicated and closely related to the integrity of the whole society.Academics cannot be isolated from society.Some of our academic journals sometimes need to publish an album to meet the needs of certain "Academic Oxman" research projects. The review process is likely to be organized by their research teams themselves.The impartiality of these reviews can sometimes be greatly compromised, but it is not ruled out that there may also be stricter and more impartial reviews, because serious academics understand that the quality of their publications is their face and reputation.