It has been widely recognized by academic circles that the standards for identifying core journals are also formulated by some university libraries, and the evaluation and access standards of each school library are also different. As far as influence is concerned, its ranking is one of the more authoritative divisions of its kind. It is the most authoritative academic influence besides NTU core and China Science Citation Database (cscd).
The Catalogue of Chinese Core Journals is the result of the evaluation and research project of Chinese Core Journals, which is attended by many periodical workers and experts from related units in Peking University Library and more than a dozen university libraries in Beijing. Published 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 20 165438, 2065438.
Before 2008, the outline of Chinese core journals was updated, researched, compiled and published every four years, and after 2008, it was updated, researched, compiled and published every three years, and various versions were constantly adjusted and improved according to the actual situation at that time, so that the research results could reflect the objective reality more scientifically and reasonably.
The research method is a multidisciplinary evaluation method combining quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative evaluation of core journals adopts abstract quantity (full text and abstract), abstract rate (full text and abstract), citation quantity, other citation quantity (journals, doctoral dissertations, conferences), impact factors, other citation impact factors, five-year impact factors, five-year impact factors, characteristic factors, paper impact score, paper citation index, etc.
Award-winning or being included in important retrieval tools, fund paper ratio (national, provincial and ministerial level), web page download volume, web page download rate and other evaluation indicators; On the basis of quantitative evaluation, expert qualitative evaluation is carried out. After quantitative screening and qualitative evaluation by experts, the core periodicals are selected from the officially published Chinese periodicals in China.
The review of the 2020 edition of Abstract of Chinese Core Journals has been completed and is being revised by Peking University Publishing House. After completion, it will still be published in the form of printed books. It is expected that the 2020 edition of core periodicals will be sent to periodicals and magazines in early March.