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- Title
The motivations and criteria behind China's list of questionable journals.
- Authors
Zhang, Lin; Wei, Yahui; Sivertsen, Gunnar; Huang, Ying
- Abstract
On 31st December 2020, The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) released a list of 65 international scientific journals, all of them indexed by the Web of Science, that were said to be potentially in conflict with academic rigour. The list immediately influenced the publication patterns of Chinese researchers. A year later, on 31st December 2021, CAS released a revised and reduced list of 35 questionable journals and said the publishers in the meantime had reacted constructively and improved the procedures of their journals. This study aims to provide an understanding of the motivations and criteria behind the list, partly by reviewing Chinese policy documents and public debates, partly with a quantitative analysis to detect the relative importance of the criteria used to select the journals for the list.
- Subjects
CHINA; CHINESE Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China); MOTIVATION (Psychology); NATIONAL libraries; LIBRARY science; QUANTITATIVE research; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Learned Publishing, 2022, Vol 35, Issue 4, p467
- ISSN
0953-1513
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/leap.1456