A Simple Model of Interaction between Journals, Authors and Editorial Board Members
A Simple Model of Interaction between Journals, Authors and Editorial Board Members作者机构：College of Information Engineering Yangzhou University Yangzhou 225009 College of Physics Science and Technology Yangzhou University Yangzhou 225009
出 版 物：《Chinese Physics Letters》 (中国物理快报（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2011年第28卷第1期
页 面：222-225页
核心收录：
学科分类：080903[工学-微电子学与固体电子学] 050302[文学-传播学] 05[文学] 0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 08[工学] 0503[文学-新闻传播学]
基 金：Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant Nos 10635040 70671089 and 10705023
主 题：Statistical physics and nonlinear systems
摘 要：Recently, quantitative study on complex systems has become an attractive research area for physicists. Human scientific activity, including scientific paper publication, is an important complex system and therefore deserves an investigation. We present a simple model to describe the interaction between journals, authors and editorial board members. In the model the probabilities, with which a journal accepts papers from an author or invites him as an editorial board member, obey normal distributions. However, the most probable value of the latter distribution shifts such that the journal can have higher level authors being its editorial board members. The analytic derivation by the model is in rather good agreement with the empirical observation from the selected fifteen worldwide journals with different impact factors.
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