Paper
Chinese perspectives on publishing academic papers
presenters
Gang Chen
Nationality: China
Residence: USA
Baoshan University
Presence:Online
Keywords:
publishing, academic paper, Chinese perspectives
Abstract:
In China, the work of professors in universities and colleges are evaluated at the end of the year in terms of teaching, doing research and publishing papers in academic journals. This evaluation will affect their promotion, and income since many universities give bonuses to incentivize professors’ publication. This gives lots of pressure to the professors to publish papers in high-rank academic journals either in Chinese or English. For Chinese journals, those indexed by the CSSCI (the Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index, developed in 1997 and now managed by Nanjing University) and CSCD (the Chinese Science Citation Database, developed in 1989 and managed by the Chinese Academy of Science) are most important. For foreign journals, SSCI and SCI are the most important indexes to rank journals. Their perspectives on publishing are affected by this ranking. As the editor of International Journal of Business Anthropology, I believe that publishing in SSCI-Indexed journals is not as important as citation. Academic papers need readers.