中国科技期刊艰难发展的幕后故事

1、中国科技期刊艰难发展的幕后故事Scientists paying more to reach worldThe fast-growing economy has had one unintended consequence: Scientists must pay more if they want to get published in international journals, which no longer consider China a low-income country.For example, US online publication PLoS One charges Chinese researchers as much as $1,350 per article, a standard fee for contributors from the United States and Europe.In comparison, it charges nothing for papers submitted from low-income countries suc

2、h as Afghanistan, Cambodia and Ethiopia, while charging $500 for lower-middle-income countries such as India, Cuba and Egypt, in accordance with a countrys per capita GDP and investment in science and technology.Many other international journals do not recognize China as a developing economy.Li Jing, a Chinese researcher working in Finland, used his blog to call on Chinese scientists to boycott PLoS One - and more than 60 scientists signed up to protest the fees.However, the nations scientists b

3、elieve the ultimate solution lies closer to home.Wu Yishan, deputy director of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, said: Although China produced 168,000 sci-tech papers in 2012 - the second highest number in the world - the vast majority of these papers are published in foreign journals, because our domestic sci-tech publications are far less influential than foreign publications. There are several excellent journals in China, but the number is too small. Most first-c

4、lass papers go to foreign journals, because the author wants the recognition of the international science community, Wu said.China needs better science journals to provide a better platform for our own scientists.The institute, under the Ministry of Science and Technology, is designed to provide decision-making support to government agencies and keep the science and technology community up to date.In 2000, only 47 of Chinas sci-tech publications were included in the Science Citation Index publis

5、hed by Thomson Reuters, which covers the worlds most notable and significant journals across 100 disciplines.By 2011, the number had increased to 155, accounting for 1.9 percent of all SCI journals.Journals: Rapid increase in sci-tech papersAt the same time, the number of Chinas sci-tech papers increased. Between 2001 and 2011, Chinese scientists published 836,300 international papers. In 2010 alone, they authored 121,500 international papers.This number is still too small compared with the tota

6、l output of papers in China, Wu said.As of 2011, only 20 percent of Chinas SCI papers were published in domestic journals. The rest went to foreign journals.Wu said the most obvious reason for Chinas sci-tech journals lagging behind is language.In the United Nations, you may have different working languages, but in the international science community, English is the de facto working language, he said.Out of more than 5,000 domestic sci-tech journals in China, about 200 are published in English.T

7、he percentage of Chinas journals in English is far lower than that of Poland, Hungary, the Republic of Korea and Japan, and many other countries, Wu said.Nevertheless, Wu blames too much government intervention for hampering the development of science journals.In recent years, very few sci-tech journals were approved, sometimes fewer than 10 a year, due to strict scrutiny by the General Administration of Press and Publication.If it (the administration) just stops restraining the total number of

8、journals, . good sci-tech journals will survive in a competitive market and bad journals will be eliminated.Wu also said most of Chinas sci-tech journals are run by inexperienced managers.Some world-famous publishers have 30 percent profit margins, but most of Chinas academic journals hardly make money, Wu said.4月19日，财政部发布公告，2006-2011年，全国财政科技累计支出18625.7亿元，年均增幅23.76%，明显高于财政经常性收入增幅。财政科技支出带动全社会研发投入快速增加，2012年预计超过1万亿元，约占GDP的1.97%。然而，中国科技投入的大幅提升却带来了一个意想不到的“副作用”：一些国际期刊纷纷对来自中国的投稿收取高额版面费。国际学术期刊公共科学图书馆综合(

9、PLoS One)就是其中之一。PLoS One按照三类标准收费。第一类是针对贫困国家和地区如阿富汗、巴勒斯坦等这样的国家和地区,实行免费政策。第二类是针对印度、牙买加、古巴、埃及等中下等收入的国家和地区,收取500美元的版面费。第三类是针对中上等和高收入的国家地区，按每篇1350美元的标准收费，而中国就被纳入到第三类。今年1月，中国学者李竞在博客上撰文抨击该收费标准，并号召国内科技界抵制PLoS One。超过60名专家学者签名同意抵制。然而，“降低对中国作者收费”的呼吁并未得到正式回应。中国科学家们转而反思，我们为什么要长期受制于人？为什么中国就不能办好自己的科技期刊呢？带着这些问题，中国日报专访了中国科学技术信息研究所的副所长武夷山，为读者揭开中国科技期刊艰难发展的幕后故事。仅2012年，中国科学家共发表科技论文16.8万篇，数量居全球第二。然而，这些论文却大多数都发表在国外期刊上。对此现象，中国科学技术信息研究所的副所长武夷山解释说，“科学研究是国际性的。每一位学者，当他有了一项研究成果，自然希望全世界的同行都知道，所以他就要选一个最好的平台来展示。这就好像，如果我是一名电视剧的制片人，我是要把我的电视剧卖给影响力较大的中央电视台还是影响力较小的地方电视台？那么我肯定会选择影响力大的。”经过多年发展，中国已经拥有了一些高水平的科技期刊，但是绝对数量仍然过少。根据中国科学技术信息研究所的统计，2000年时中国仅有47种期刊被SCI收录，占全世界的0.826%。到了2011年，这一数字已经增加到155种，也仅占全世界的1.859%。另一个数据也可以说明问题：在2011年，中国科学家发表的SCI论文中，高达80%都发在国外的刊物上。“尽管从SCI收录数量和占总量比例上说，我国的科技期刊都取得了一定的发展，但相对于我们的论文产出，我国期刊被SCI收录数量仍然太少。所以我们的论文基本都是发在别人的期刊上面了，”武夷山说。他说，科技学术期刊是一个国家科技事业的重要组成部分，中科院前院长卢嘉锡院士1985年4月20日曾题词说，“对科研工作来讲，科技期刊工作既是龙尾，又是龙头”。

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