Effects of Editors in Mastering the Academic Level of Scientific Journals and Setting Up the Upstanding Style of Study
Yan Shuai · Beijing Linye Daxue xuebao · 2007
Academic level is the foundation of scientific journals,and editors are the key in mastering the academic level of journals.In this paper,the authors first analyze the main reasons of influencing academic level of journals such as: the contributing source of most journals is mainly relying on the free contribution,editors do not spend enough time on the contribution organizing;many reasons result in the inappropriate choosing of peer reviewers and therefore lead to the ineffective checking and approving;the problems lying in the process of editing and proofreading make the papers difficult to be neat,clear,ascertain ;interference from varied sides possibly makes the papers of poor quality or even impropered being published.Concerning the above problems,editors should exert their key roles and try to do as the followings: walking out of the editorial offices and spending more time on the contribution organizing;strengthening study in major and knowing more about the experts to ensure the quality guarding in this stage;launching on early and improving the quality of editing and proofreading in each step of this phase;trying to send the contributions to the reviewers without the information of authors to avoid the contrived interference.The editors should play key roles in mastering the academic level of scientific journals and setting up the upstanding style of study.