REFLECTIONS ON CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ACADEMIC PERIODICALS
Liao Cai-gao · Journal of Yunmeng · 2010
The academic periodical is an important platform of carrying out academic exchanges,promoting knowledge innovation and cultivating talents who specialize in academic scientific research,which plays an important role in promoting the civilization and progress of the society.With the thirty years of China's reform and opening up,academic periodical associated with the development of science,education,and culture has been undertaking a rapid development,but has been also confronted with many problems at present.The problems are mainly as follows:a lack of a sound guarantee system when going over drafts and selecting texts;the executive of the periodical subjects;inappropriate layout specifications lead to the results that editors select the papers and readers read the papers according to the author;academic corruption as a result of unscientific evaluation mechanism deeply pollutes academic periodicals;funds are lack of clear policies and regulations and so on.To change this situation,to achieve the purposes of academic periodicals,a full range of complementary remediation should be conducted:(1) to strengthen the system construction of going over drafts and selecting texts;(2) to implement the actual duty of editors and expand the autonomy of the editor and the copy editor;(3) to reform layout specifications and add the editor's notes(key introduction) and value of the paper and creational points written by the author and cancel author's organization and author's brief introduction;(4) to reform scientific research evaluation mechanism to strengthen the intensity of academic corruption punishment;(5) to establish a number of special issues of academic criticism and reform evaluation methods of academic periodical;(6) Make clear the nature of academic periodicals and sources and amounts of funds,ensure that the expenses are sufficient.