A Simple Model of Interaction between Journals, Authors and Editorial Board Members
ZOU Sheng-Rong1, XU Ying-Ying1, XU Xiu-Lian2, WANG Jian2, HE Da-Ren2**
1College of Information Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009 2College of Physics Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009
A Simple Model of Interaction between Journals, Authors and Editorial Board Members
ZOU Sheng-Rong1, XU Ying-Ying1, XU Xiu-Lian2, WANG Jian2, HE Da-Ren2**
1College of Information Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009 2College of Physics Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009
摘要Recently, quantitative study on complex systems has become an attractive research area for physicists. Human scientific activity, including scientific paper publication, is an important complex system and therefore deserves an investigation. We present a simple model to describe the interaction between journals, authors and editorial board members. In the model the probabilities, with which a journal accepts papers from an author or invites him as an editorial board member, obey normal distributions. However, the most probable value of the latter distribution shifts such that the journal can have higher level authors being its editorial board members. The analytic derivation by the model is in rather good agreement with the empirical observation from the selected fifteen worldwide journals with different impact factors.
Abstract：Recently, quantitative study on complex systems has become an attractive research area for physicists. Human scientific activity, including scientific paper publication, is an important complex system and therefore deserves an investigation. We present a simple model to describe the interaction between journals, authors and editorial board members. In the model the probabilities, with which a journal accepts papers from an author or invites him as an editorial board member, obey normal distributions. However, the most probable value of the latter distribution shifts such that the journal can have higher level authors being its editorial board members. The analytic derivation by the model is in rather good agreement with the empirical observation from the selected fifteen worldwide journals with different impact factors.
ZOU Sheng-Rong;XU Ying-Ying;XU Xiu-Lian;WANG Jian;HE Da-Ren**
. A Simple Model of Interaction between Journals, Authors and Editorial Board Members[J]. 中国物理快报, 2011, 28(1): 18902-018902.
ZOU Sheng-Rong, XU Ying-Ying, XU Xiu-Lian, WANG Jian, HE Da-Ren**
. A Simple Model of Interaction between Journals, Authors and Editorial Board Members. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2011, 28(1): 18902-018902.
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