Does Success Breed Success?A Study on the Correlation between Impact Factor and Quantity in Chinese Academic Journals

作     者：Kun Chen Xiantong Ren Guoliang Yang Ailifeire Abudouguli 

作者机构：School of Politics and Public AdministrationXinjiang UniversityUrumqi830046China Institute of Science and DevelopmentChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190China University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Data and Information Science》 (数据与情报科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第6卷第4期

页      面：90-110页

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学科分类：050302[文学-传播学] 05[文学] 0503[文学-新闻传播学] 

基　　金：This work was financially supported by the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.2018JJ3298) the Ph.D.Scientific research Start-up Project of Xinjiang University(Grant No.BS202104) the Tianchi Doctoral Project of Xinjiang(Grant No.TCBS202050) 

主　　题：Impact factor(IF) Chinese academic journals Correlation analysis the Number of journal papers 

摘      要：Purpose:This paper studies the relationship between the impact factor(IF)and the number of journal papers in Chinese publishing ***/methodology/approach:The method proposed by Huang(2016)is used whereas to analysis the data of Chinese journals in this ***:Based on the analysis,we find the following.(1)The average impact factor(AIF)of journals in all disciplines maintained a growth trend from 2007 to *** before or after removing outlier journals that may garner publication fees,the IF and its growth rate for most social sciences disciplines are larger than those of most natural sciences disciplines,and the number of journal papers on social sciences disciplines decreased while that of natural sciences disciplines increased from 2007 to 2017.(2)The removal of outlier journals has a greater impact on the relationship between the IF and the number of journal papers in some disciplines such as Geosciences because there may be journals that publish many papers to garner publication fees.(3)The success-breeds-success(SBS)principle is applicable in Chinese journals on natural sciences disciplines but not in Chinese journals on social sciences disciplines,and the relationship is the reverse of the SBS principle in Economics and Education&Educational Research.(4)Based on interviews and surveys,the difference in the relationship between the IF and the number of journal papers for Chinese natural sciences disciplines and Chinese social sciences disciplines may be due to the influence of the international publishing *** natural sciences journals are losing their academic power while Chinese social sciences journals that are less influenced by the international publishing system are in fierce *** limitation:More implications could be found if long-term tracking and comparing the international publishing system with Chinese publishing system are *** implications:It is suggested that researchers from different co