Purpose:For a set of 1,561 Open Access(OA)and non-OA journals in business and economics,this study evaluates the relationships between four citation metrics-five-year Impact Factor(5IF),CiteScore,Article Influence(AI)...Purpose:For a set of 1,561 Open Access(OA)and non-OA journals in business and economics,this study evaluates the relationships between four citation metrics-five-year Impact Factor(5IF),CiteScore,Article Influence(AI)score,and SCImago Journal Rank(SJR)-and the journal ratings assigned by expert reviewers.We expect that the OA journals will have especially high citation impact relative to their perceived quality(reputation).Design/methodology/approach:Regression is used to estimate the ratings assigned by expert reviewers for the 2021 CABS(Chartered Association of Business Schools)journal assessment exercise.The independent variables are the four citation metrics,evaluated separately,and a dummy variable representing the OA/non-OA status of each journal.Findings:Regardless of the citation metric used,OA journals in business and economics have especially high citation impact relative to their perceived quality(reputation).That is,they have especially low perceived quality(reputation)relative to their citation impact.Research limitations:These results are specific to the CABS journal ratings and the four citation metrics.However,there is strong evidence that CABS is closely related to several other expert ratings,and that 5IF,CiteScore,AI,and SJR are representative of the other citation metrics that might have been chosen.Practical implications:There are at least two possible explanations for these results:(1)expert evaluators are biased against OA journals,and(2)OA journals have especially high citation impact due to their increased accessibility.Although this study does not allow us to determine which of these explanations are supported,the results suggest that authors should consider publishing in OA journals whenever overall readership and citation impact are more important than journal reputation within a particular field.Moreover,the OA coefficients provide a useful indicator of the extent to which anti-OA bias(or the citation advantage of OA journals)is diminishing over time.Originality/value:This is apparently the first study to investigate the impact of OA status on the relationships between expert journal ratings and journal citation metrics.展开更多
The author regrets that the paper titled“Gauging scholars’acceptance of Open Access journals by examining the relationship between perceived quality and citation impact”(DOI:10.2478/jdis-2025-0002),as published,con...The author regrets that the paper titled“Gauging scholars’acceptance of Open Access journals by examining the relationship between perceived quality and citation impact”(DOI:10.2478/jdis-2025-0002),as published,contains errors in four of the table captions.For Tables 12-15,“CABS business journals”should read“CABS economics journals.”The tables do have the correct values for the economics journals,and the findings reported in the text do not need revision.The author apologizes for any inconvenience.展开更多
Construction of LNG receiving terminals The scale of receiving terminals is expanding rapidly At the end of 1999,the state approved the Guangdong LNG Pilot Project,which opened the prelude to the construction of LNG r...Construction of LNG receiving terminals The scale of receiving terminals is expanding rapidly At the end of 1999,the state approved the Guangdong LNG Pilot Project,which opened the prelude to the construction of LNG receiving terminals.In 2006,China's first LNG receiving terminal,namely Dapeng LNG Receiving Terminal in Shenzhen,Guangdong Province,was put into operation,marking the beginning of the use of overseas natural gas in China.展开更多
Purpose:We attempt to find out whether OA or TA really affects the dissemination of scientific discoveries.Design/methodology/approach:We design the indicators,hot-degree,and R-index to indicate a topic OA or TA advan...Purpose:We attempt to find out whether OA or TA really affects the dissemination of scientific discoveries.Design/methodology/approach:We design the indicators,hot-degree,and R-index to indicate a topic OA or TA advantages.First,according to the OA classification of the Web of Science(WoS),we collect data from the WoS by downloading OA and TA articles,letters,and reviews published in Nature and Science during 2010–2019.These papers are divided into three broad disciplines,namely biomedicine,physics,and others.Then,taking a discipline in a journal and using the classical Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA)to cluster 100 topics of OA and TA papers respectively,we apply the Pearson correlation coefficient to match the topics of OA and TA,and calculate the hot-degree and R-index of every OA-TA topic pair.Finally,characteristics of the discipline can be presented.In qualitative comparison,we choose some high-quality papers which belong to Nature remarkable papers or Science breakthroughs,and analyze the relations between OA/TA and citation numbers.Findings:The result shows that OA hot-degree in biomedicine is significantly greater than that of TA,but significantly less than that of TA in physics.Based on the R-index,it is found that OA advantages exist in biomedicine and TA advantages do in physics.Therefore,the dissemination of average scientific discoveries in all fields is not necessarily affected by OA or TA.However,OA promotes the spread of important scientific discoveries in high-quality papers.Research limitations:We lost some citations by ignoring other open sources such as arXiv and bioArxiv.Another limitation came from that Nature employs some strong measures for access-promoting subscription-based articles,on which the boundary between OA and TA became fuzzy.Practical implications:It is useful to select hot topics in a set of publications by the hotdegree index.The finding comprehensively reflects the differences of OA and TA in different disciplines,which is a useful reference when researchers choose the publishing way as OA or TA.Originality/value:We propose a new method,including two indicators,to explore and measure OA or TA advantages.展开更多
Due to the new situation of continuous expansion of scientific and technological resources in universities and the urgent demand for hardware resources for science and technology innovation it is imperative to strengt...Due to the new situation of continuous expansion of scientific and technological resources in universities and the urgent demand for hardware resources for science and technology innovation it is imperative to strengthen the construction of large-scale instrument service platforms and open access management.It is not only the requirements for the development of instrument service platforms,but also the resources for science and technology of society.In the present paper,we first summarized the current equipment management,open access and major experience,then raised the problems in the construction and management process on the basis of the large instrument platform construction and open access management regulations,and finally proposed countermeasures for these problems:increasing funding input,streamlining the management system,improving the performance evaluation mechanism,and strengthening the management and operation team construction,etc.Collectively,this paper provided reference and enlightenment for the construction and open access management of similar large-scale instrument platforms.展开更多
文摘Purpose:For a set of 1,561 Open Access(OA)and non-OA journals in business and economics,this study evaluates the relationships between four citation metrics-five-year Impact Factor(5IF),CiteScore,Article Influence(AI)score,and SCImago Journal Rank(SJR)-and the journal ratings assigned by expert reviewers.We expect that the OA journals will have especially high citation impact relative to their perceived quality(reputation).Design/methodology/approach:Regression is used to estimate the ratings assigned by expert reviewers for the 2021 CABS(Chartered Association of Business Schools)journal assessment exercise.The independent variables are the four citation metrics,evaluated separately,and a dummy variable representing the OA/non-OA status of each journal.Findings:Regardless of the citation metric used,OA journals in business and economics have especially high citation impact relative to their perceived quality(reputation).That is,they have especially low perceived quality(reputation)relative to their citation impact.Research limitations:These results are specific to the CABS journal ratings and the four citation metrics.However,there is strong evidence that CABS is closely related to several other expert ratings,and that 5IF,CiteScore,AI,and SJR are representative of the other citation metrics that might have been chosen.Practical implications:There are at least two possible explanations for these results:(1)expert evaluators are biased against OA journals,and(2)OA journals have especially high citation impact due to their increased accessibility.Although this study does not allow us to determine which of these explanations are supported,the results suggest that authors should consider publishing in OA journals whenever overall readership and citation impact are more important than journal reputation within a particular field.Moreover,the OA coefficients provide a useful indicator of the extent to which anti-OA bias(or the citation advantage of OA journals)is diminishing over time.Originality/value:This is apparently the first study to investigate the impact of OA status on the relationships between expert journal ratings and journal citation metrics.
文摘The author regrets that the paper titled“Gauging scholars’acceptance of Open Access journals by examining the relationship between perceived quality and citation impact”(DOI:10.2478/jdis-2025-0002),as published,contains errors in four of the table captions.For Tables 12-15,“CABS business journals”should read“CABS economics journals.”The tables do have the correct values for the economics journals,and the findings reported in the text do not need revision.The author apologizes for any inconvenience.
文摘Construction of LNG receiving terminals The scale of receiving terminals is expanding rapidly At the end of 1999,the state approved the Guangdong LNG Pilot Project,which opened the prelude to the construction of LNG receiving terminals.In 2006,China's first LNG receiving terminal,namely Dapeng LNG Receiving Terminal in Shenzhen,Guangdong Province,was put into operation,marking the beginning of the use of overseas natural gas in China.
文摘Purpose:We attempt to find out whether OA or TA really affects the dissemination of scientific discoveries.Design/methodology/approach:We design the indicators,hot-degree,and R-index to indicate a topic OA or TA advantages.First,according to the OA classification of the Web of Science(WoS),we collect data from the WoS by downloading OA and TA articles,letters,and reviews published in Nature and Science during 2010–2019.These papers are divided into three broad disciplines,namely biomedicine,physics,and others.Then,taking a discipline in a journal and using the classical Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA)to cluster 100 topics of OA and TA papers respectively,we apply the Pearson correlation coefficient to match the topics of OA and TA,and calculate the hot-degree and R-index of every OA-TA topic pair.Finally,characteristics of the discipline can be presented.In qualitative comparison,we choose some high-quality papers which belong to Nature remarkable papers or Science breakthroughs,and analyze the relations between OA/TA and citation numbers.Findings:The result shows that OA hot-degree in biomedicine is significantly greater than that of TA,but significantly less than that of TA in physics.Based on the R-index,it is found that OA advantages exist in biomedicine and TA advantages do in physics.Therefore,the dissemination of average scientific discoveries in all fields is not necessarily affected by OA or TA.However,OA promotes the spread of important scientific discoveries in high-quality papers.Research limitations:We lost some citations by ignoring other open sources such as arXiv and bioArxiv.Another limitation came from that Nature employs some strong measures for access-promoting subscription-based articles,on which the boundary between OA and TA became fuzzy.Practical implications:It is useful to select hot topics in a set of publications by the hotdegree index.The finding comprehensively reflects the differences of OA and TA in different disciplines,which is a useful reference when researchers choose the publishing way as OA or TA.Originality/value:We propose a new method,including two indicators,to explore and measure OA or TA advantages.
文摘Due to the new situation of continuous expansion of scientific and technological resources in universities and the urgent demand for hardware resources for science and technology innovation it is imperative to strengthen the construction of large-scale instrument service platforms and open access management.It is not only the requirements for the development of instrument service platforms,but also the resources for science and technology of society.In the present paper,we first summarized the current equipment management,open access and major experience,then raised the problems in the construction and management process on the basis of the large instrument platform construction and open access management regulations,and finally proposed countermeasures for these problems:increasing funding input,streamlining the management system,improving the performance evaluation mechanism,and strengthening the management and operation team construction,etc.Collectively,this paper provided reference and enlightenment for the construction and open access management of similar large-scale instrument platforms.
