期刊影响因子与同行评审的彻底性和有用性之间的关系
Anna Severin1,2, Michaela Strinzel3, Matthias Egger1,3,4
1Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
PLoS biology
|August 29, 2023
概括
期刊影响因子 (JIF) 是对同行评审质量的不良预测指标. 更高级的JIF期刊有更彻底的评论,专注于方法,但提供更少的解决方案,与适度的差异和高的变化.
科学领域:
- 图书计量和学术传播
- 科学出版 科研出版
- 同行评审流程 同行评审流程
背景情况:
- 期刊影响因子 (JIF) 被广泛用作期刊质量的代理,但将其与同行评审特征联系起来的经验证据有限.
- 了解同行评审内容与JIF之间的关系对于评估科学出版实践至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 研究同行评审报告的内容与生物医学期刊的期刊影响因子之间的关联.
- 为了确定较高的JIF期刊与较低的JIF期刊相比,是否表现出不同的同行评审彻底性或有用性.
主要方法:
- 分析了来自1644个生物医学期刊的1万份同行评审报告,涉及广泛的JIF.
- 手动编码回顾句子,将其分为彻底性 (例如,材料和方法,演示) 和有用性 (例如,建议,赞美) 的类别.
- 应用变压器机器学习模型来分类句子内容,并检查与JIF组的关联.
主要成果:
- 与JIF相比,审查的中位数长度增加,从最低组的185个单词增加到最高组的387个单词.
- 较高的JIF期刊显示,关于材料和方法的句子比例较高,但关于演示和报告的句子比例较低.
- 高级JIF期刊的评论相对较低的JIF期刊相比,对建议和解决方案的关注相对较少.
结论:
- 高级JIF期刊的同行评审通常更彻底,强调研究方法,但提供更少的建设性建议.
- 在JIF组之间的同行评审内容中观察到的差异很小,并且表现出很高的变化.
- 期刊影响因子是对个人手稿的同行评审质量的不可靠指标.
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