Early warning periodicals are divided into three grades: high, medium and low. Different grades have different concerns, and the risk of early warning is weakened in turn. High-risk early warning aims at curbing academic misconduct: batch papers involve "paper factories"; The purpose of risk early warning is to promote the international dissemination of academic achievements in China and optimize the use of scientific research funds in China: the internationalization of periodical authors and readers is low, and the processing fee of papers is unreasonable; The purpose of low-risk early warning is to remind scientists that there is a risk that the academic influence of journals will plummet: the number of articles published in a large number of journals will increase sharply.
The principles for setting the early warning list of international journals are objectivity, prudence and openness. The periodical partition table team hopes to work together with the scientific community, scientific research management departments, periodicals and publishing houses to consolidate the scientific spirit and create a clean academic environment.
Journal early warning is not a paper evaluation, nor is it a denial of every achievement published by early warning journals. The purpose of periodical early warning is to remind researchers to carefully choose the publishing platform of achievements and prompt publishing institutions to strengthen periodical quality management.
The identification of early warning periodicals adopts qualitative and quantitative methods, establishes analysis dimensions and evaluation indicators through expert consultation, and then generates objective data based on indicators. Specifically, it is to find out those academic journals with risk characteristics and potential quality problems through comprehensive evaluation of journal papers, internationalization degree of authors, rejection rate, paper processing fee (APC), journal transcendence index, self-citation rate and rejection information.