调繜显示,学术声誉“仍由期刊声望所驱动棰

对近万名研究人员的全球民意调繜显示,文献计量学在确瓒声誉和机骞关系方面檱在持续影响

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泰晤士高等教育(온라인 바카라)对近万名学者进行的一项调查发现,尽管国际学术界正努力减少研究引用分数和期刊声望的影响,但它们仍是学者们如何评判彼此的重要因素。

除了与另一位学者的个人互动外,研究人员所发表期刊的感知质量是对其学术地位评价最有影响力的因素,在9609名受访者中,有近一半(49%潩学者表示这很重要,璐且有12%受访者认为这是最重要的。

当被问及引文指标时,24%的受访者表示学者的h指数和其他类似指标很重要,5%受访者认为这些是最关键的因素。

虽然个人互动在声誉问题上被认为是最重要的(69%受访者认为它重要,且有41%受访者认为它最重要潩,但在学持续努力减少学术出冩领域所谓的“声望经济棰后,文献计量学仍如此流行或许会让一些学者感到惊讶。许多人将顶级期刊订阅和开放获取成本上升和在著名期刊外发表的世级研究被边缘婊环咎于此。

上个月,来自40多个国家/地区的350多个组织签署了一份新协议。该协议以2015年的《莱顿宣言》(Leiden Manifesto)为基础,建议主要根据定性指标来评估研究,并放弃基于期刊的指标。该协议是在《旧金山科研评估宣言》 (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment)发表近10年后达成的,后者倡议在研究资助、职位任命和晋升决策中逐步淘汰基于期刊指标的使用,迄今全球已有近两万人和2600家机构签署该宣言。

根据泰晤士高等教育的调繜,约一半机骞(48%潩使用研究发表期刊的质量来判断研究合作是否成功,璐过了将其在学术以外产生实际影响作为衡量标准(37%潩。

泰晤士高等教育咨询团队的高等教育高级顾问马克·特韦德尔(Mark Tweddle)表示,对研究人员的调查(这些研究人员中79%至少拥有11年研究经验)表明了领先期刊和文献计量学在学界内的持久影响。

特韦德尔先生说澹“随着近年来学越来越多地转向开放获取出冩物,人们可能会认为,从学术研究发表之腐获得声誉的情况可能会减少。棰

他补充说澹“也许迟早会出现这种情况,但就目前而言,旧习惯似乎很难被改掉,在某些期刊上发表论文的学者仍获得大量声誉。棰

调繜还发现,当被问及如何选择合作的机骞时,价值观与研究专长同样重要。近三分之一(32%潩受访者认为能够以开放和信任的方式开展合作是对开启合作最有影响力的因素,而同样比例(32%潩的受访者表示研究专业知识的一致性是合作的最关键因素。

有11%受访者将研究者的个人声誉列为首要因素,而2%的受访者提到了研究人员所在大学的整体声誉,但分别有51%和11%的受访者认为这些因素有些重要。

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