國內科學教育相關期刊排序研究

Abstract

科學教育的研究近十年來在國內外愈來愈受到重視，國內相關的研究人才與學術性期刊也日益增多，因此有必要針對國內科學教育相關領域的期刊進行排序研究，以幫助研究者在有限的精力與時間下，選擇較具影響力的期刊閱讀與投稿。本文除了提供目前國內科學教育相關期刊的基本資料、編輯委員會組織、和審稿概況外，並利用主觀和客觀兩種方法來評估相關期刊在科學教育研究領域的影響力及其排序。在主觀方法上，我們以期刊排序文獻中最常用到的「學者主觀評價」、「學者投稿偏好」、以及「學者閱讀偏好」等三項指標；而在客觀方法上，則採用「引用文獻分析」中的「總引用次數」之指標。除了利用上述各項指標進行期刊的評估外，我們亦將這四項指標納入一綜合性指標進行分析。研究結果顯示，科學教育學刊、行政院國家科學委員會研究彙刊: 科學教育、國立台灣師範大學學報：科學教育類、以及科學教育月刊等四期刊在科學教育研究領域上之影響最大。研究結果除了幫助科學教育研究社群瞭解相關期刊的影響力外，亦可提供給有關學術或研究單位在學者學術期刊表現上一個較為客觀的標準。但值得注意的是，本研究旨在評估哪些與科學教育相關的期刊對科學教育領域而言最具有影響力及素質較佳，並不意味著這些期刊在其他一般教育領域的絕對素質及優劣程度，故在排名結果的解釋和運用上應特別小心。

For the past decade, science education research has not only gained much attention from educators throughout the world but also encouraged growing numbers of researchers and academic journals to devote into this field. In light of assisting researchers to shape their own journal reading and publication scheme, it seems appropriate to assess and rank the relative quality of science/math education-related journals in Taiwan. In thispaper, we provide information on the characteristics of editorial operation and manuscript review process of science educationrelated journals as well as a journal rankings result using both a subjective (survey) and an objective (citation) approach. Three subjective indicators including expert judgment, paper submission preferences, and reading preferences revealed by researchers, and an objective indicator on the total citations of a journal were employed to evaluate and rank science education journals. A composite indicator was then established by incorporating the above four indicators to appraise the overall impacts of different science education journals. The results indicated that the Chinese Journal of Science Education, Proceedings of the National Science Council Part D: Science Education, Journal of National Taiwan Normal University: Mathematics & Science Education,and Science Education Monthly are consistently ranked highly irrespective of which indicators used. The rankings provide the research community with a better understanding of which science education publication outlets are the most influential in our field and also make an objective analysis of journal quality available to academic departments or institutes for assessment of faculty performance. It is noted, however, that the objective of this paper was to assess the relative impacts and quality of journals in the field of science education; for that reason, the results of the current study should not be generalized to other educational research fields.