Core journals are the main journals of a certain discipline and an important part of China's academic evaluation system. They can measure a country's basic scientific research level, as a graduation certificate, and can also be used to evaluate senior professional titles. There are many criteria for evaluating core journals, including influence, standardization, timeliness, collection and so on. Next, let's understand the role and evaluation criteria of core journals with Bian Xiao. What is the use of publishing papers in core journals?

1, comment on senior titles

In China, the evaluation requirements for senior professional titles are very strict. Most senior titles require core journal papers. For example, to evaluate the chief physician, you need to publish 1 core journal papers and 2 general journal papers. Senior auditors require associate professors to have at least 2 core journal papers, 1 core journal papers and 2-3 general journal papers, and some titles also require articles to be published in SCI. Core journal papers with professional titles should not only reflect and summarize their own work contents, but also have novel viewpoints, which are professional, ideological and forward-looking, and have profound and practical research on problems.

2, clarify the scientific research results

After obtaining a scientific research achievement, scientists must publish research papers in core journals. In the international scientific community, how to correctly evaluate the achievements of basic scientific research has been paid more and more attention. The number of scientific papers collected by SCI and SSCI is regarded as an important evaluation index to measure the level of basic scientific research, scientific strength and the number of scientific papers in a country.

3. Graduation certificate

Universities do not have too high requirements for undergraduates, and generally publish papers in general journals. Postgraduates and doctoral students in key universities need to publish papers in core journals. On the one hand, they are research-oriented talents in a certain field, and their core papers are published to show their achievements. On the other hand, they can only meet the graduation conditions after publishing their core papers.

What are the criteria for evaluating core journals?

1, influence

Source journals must have strong social influence and high academic status, have a good academic reputation, attract high-level authors at home and abroad to publish high-quality papers, and have a stable readership. The collection of source journals should focus on national academic journals in important scientific and technological fields, journals of natural science societies at all levels, journals of research institutes and key universities of China Academy of Sciences, and local outstanding academic research journals.

2, normative

Source journals must be edited in accordance with international and domestic editing practices, and the relevant standard requirements of CSTPCD for source journals should be implemented. Should have complete bibliographic information, including publication name and year, paper title and abstract, keywords and classification number, comprehensive author information, standardized references and other important scientific measurement data.

Step 3 be timely

Source journals must maintain a strict publishing cycle, and cannot be delayed or postponed at will, and send journals and data disks to the Information Analysis and Research Center of China Institute of Science and Technology Information accurately and timely according to regulations.

4. Collection situation

Whether it is included as a source journal by famous large-scale retrieval systems at home and abroad is an important basis for the evaluation of core journals. If the source journals can be searched in major retrieval systems, they can be considered as core journals.