Acta Geographica Sinica ›› 2014, Vol. 69 ›› Issue (11): 1725-1733.doi: 10.11821/dlxb201411013

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Academic influence of China's geographical journals in SCIE

Chunli ZHANG1(), Chunlei SHENG2, Sixiu NI3()   

  1. 1. Editorial department of Chinese Geographical Science, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS, Changchun 130102, China
    2. Information Centre, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS, Changchun 130102, China
    3. Library, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu, China
  • Received:2014-08-07 Revised:2014-09-23 Online:2014-11-20 Published:2014-11-20
  • Supported by:
    Knowledge Innovative Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, No;Y1B2101001;National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.41371146

Abstract:

In order to explore the academic influence of geographical journals in China, this paper selects 17 journals related to Geography in science citation index expanded (SCIE) as research objects. We analyzed the variation of the main citation index including impact factor, total citations, source items, self citation based on JCR database reported by ISI from 2009 to 2013. Furthermore, we analyzed cited frequency of average article, highest citation frequency of single article, proportion of international article using analysis tools on web of science platform. The results show that: (1) generally, the impact factor showed an upward trend and there was a slight increase of academic impact of these journals during the five years. (2) J ENVIRON SCI-CHINA, SCI CHINA EARTH SCI, ACTA GEOL SIN-ENGL, ADV ATMOS SCI, PEDOSPHERE are the top five in the overall impact factor rankings, which are in line with the actual situation of China. (3) Most of the geographical journals had a low proportion of international articles, indicating the low level of internationalization. (4) The other citation indexes including impact factor, total citations, cited frequency of average article, highest citation frequency of single article keep low within the same subject category. Factors that affect academic influence of geographical journals were discussed, and some suggestions were put forward to promote the academic influence. On one hand, the journals should focus on high quality articles and knowledge innovation so as to improve the academic quality of journals based on a larger global scale; on the other hand, the sources of manuscripts, editing and distributing should be standardized to a higher international level.

Key words: geographical journals, academic influence, JCR, Web of Science