生醫類開放近用期刊中高產量學者發表論文之資訊計量研究

Abstract

本研究主要探討生醫類開放近用期刊中高產量學者的學術著作分布，本研究收集該領域30位高產量學者的論文進行計量分析，共自WOS所收錄的期刊中蒐集了2,927篇論文。主要研究問題包含開放近用期刊中的高產量學者發表論文於開放近用期刊中的比率及分布情形，其在開放近用期刊中的論文與非開放近用期刊中的論文被引用的情形，以及這些高產量學者的學術表現等，以做為未來向學者推廣開放近用期刊之參考。 研究結果顯示，30位高產量學者發表論文之期刊種數與論文篇數分布呈現冪次分布，2,927篇論文中開放近用期刊論文篇數比例為36%，並有逐年增加的趨勢；而30位學者發表論文的期刊IF值與論文篇數之相關性為低度的正向關係；在論文被引用次數方面，其論文被引用的次數與期刊平均IF值有高度的正向關係；值得注意的是，本研究針對這群高產量學者所做的調查發現，開放近用期刊對其而言並不具有引用優勢，此點與前人研究結論不同；在學者的學術表現方面，本研究定義之學術貢獻度分布範圍為4.42至20.41，高低主要與發表論文時之作者排名呈現中度相關，而h-index之範圍則是5至82，高低主要與學者發表論文之篇數多寡相關。 綜合以上的研究結果，在學者對開放近用期刊的發表情形上，本研究立意取樣開放近用期刊的高產量學者，較過去廣泛對學者進行抽樣調查更能夠客觀的比較開放近用期刊與非開放近用期刊的投稿選擇以及對學者學術成就的影響。而採用資訊計量方法所產生的客觀數據來進行比較，亦更能夠作為推廣開放近用期刊的依據。 The study investigated publishing behaviors of high productivity authors who have ever published papers in biomedical open access journals (OAJ). In this study, 2,927 academic papers published by 30 high productivity authors were collected from Web of Science (WOS) database. The ratio and distribution of the papers in OAJ from the 30 high productivity authors were calculated. The citations of papers published in OAJ are compared with papers published in non-OAJ as well. Finally, the academic performance of these high productivity authors was studied for speculating the reasons why the percentage of the articles they published in OAJ is almost 36 %. The results of this study showed that: 1) the categories of the academic journals and in which the number of the 30 productivity authors’ papers are displaying power law distribution;2) the percentage of the 2,927 papers in OAJ is 36% and is increasing year by year;3) the correlation between journal impact factor and the number of the papers is modestly positive correlated; 4) with regard to the number of paper citation, the correlation between the mean journal impact factor and the citation of the papers is highly positive correlated; it’s notable that, in this study, to be compared with non-OAJ, OAJ has no citation advantage to these high productivity authors, and this result differs from the predecessors’ researches; 5) the academic contribution defined in this study, ranges between4.42 and 20.41, which is mainly influenced by the authorship order in academic articles; and 6) the range of h-index is between 5 and 82, which is influenced by the numbers of the author’s published papers. Based on the above findings, to make a comparison of the publishing behaviors of the high productivity authors between the selection of submitting papers in OAJ and non-OAJ, and study the impact on the academic performance, it’s more objective to use purposive sampling of high productivity authors in this study than using conventional extensive sampling. Moreover, to make such comparison by adopting the objective data, which are collected by infometrics method, is more able to be as a basis to promote OAJ as well.