China to terminate its weakest scientific journals
SEP 16, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024675
Nature : Li Dongdong, the deputy director of China’s publications regulator, announced two weeks ago that new rules will be imposed that will effectively terminate the country’s weakest scientific journals. As Nature‘s David Cyranoski reports, some of China’s journals fall well short of Western standards. He writes
Most Chinese journals make their money through funding from their host institutions, and by charging authors per-page publishing fees. “Most are never cited. Who knows if they’re even really published. They’re ghosts,” says one publisher, who declined to be named. Wu Haiyun, a cardiologist at the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing, says that only 5-10% of these journals are worth saving, and the rest are “information pollution.”
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