Abstract
The authors attempt to determine publishing contribution of editorial board members (EBM) into the rating of their parent journals as exemplified by Russian journals in library and information sciences divided into low-, middle-, and top-rank groups. To determine this contribution, we studied EBM scholarly input to their parent journals vs. to other sources; besides, the scholarly input by EBM and other authors in each journal was compared. No correlation between the journal rank and share of EBM’s publications in their parent journals and/or EBM’s citations of their journal, or correlation between the journal rank and share of EBM papers in the respective journal were detected. However, the positive correlation was revealed between the journal rank and share of foreign EBM, regardless of their scholarly input in their parent journal. The analysis of citation of EBM papers in their journals, as well as the analyses of their journal citations provided by EBM in other sources, demonstrates significant impact of EBM on bibliometric indices of top- and low-rank journals implying active involvement of EBM in the development of their parent serials. The lowest or even negative impact of EBM on journal rank was identified among the middle-rank group of journals since their papers were poorly (if ever) cited. Thus, formal inclusion of experts into editorial boards of those journals and low interest they take in their journal may be assumed. Our findings contribute to scientometric studies of editorial boards and may be of interest to editors-in-chief and founders of journals.
Highlights
The authors attempt to determine publishing contribution of editorial board members (EBM) into the rating of their parent journals as exemplified by Russian journals in library and information sciences divided into low, middle, and top-rank groups
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Summary
Доля публикаций редколлегии в журнале от общего числа публикаций редколлегии (%). Рис. 4. По всем трём группам журналов показаны относительно равномерное распределение публикаций членов редколлегий и иных авторов, а также относительно низкая доля публикаций в своём журнале от общего числа публикаций редколлегии, притом что в журналах с высокими ИФ члены редколлегии в большей мере склонны публиковаться в других источниках Наибольшая заинтересованность редколлегии этой группы в развитии своих журналов подтверждается тем, что доля членов редколлегии, влияющих на библиометрические показатели журнала, как мы показали на рис. В рассмотренных журналах информационнобиблиотечной тематики с высокими ИФ вряд ли имеют место использование редколлегией служебных преимуществ и нарушение конфликта интересов, поскольку уровень цитируемости исследователей в этой группе в целом выше, чем таковой в двух других группах, а доля публикаций в своём журнале, напротив, ниже. Лишь у одного из 9 журналов этой группы («Вестник НГУ») публикационный вклад редколлегии давал положительный эффект, во всех остальных случаях динамика отрицательная
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