Application And Research Of Red Point Factor For The Evaluation Of Medical Journals

ObjectiveTo analyse the present situation of red point factor of Chinese medical journals,so that to evaluate medical journals.To explore the correlation between the red point factor and other evaluation indicators of medical journals,for the evaluation function of red point factor in medical journals,evaluate the scientificity and rationality of the red point factor,and explore the main factors affecting the red point factor.To understand the cognition,attitude and behavior of journal editors,for improving the attention of periodical publishing units to red point factor.To grasp the research hotspot and research trend of some medical journals,and discuss the effective suggestions on improving the red point factor of periodicals.Methods663 medical journals in Chinese S&T Journal Citation Reports(2018 Edition)were selected as the study samples,and medical journals were divided into 40 disciplines.Red point factor was selected as the research object.It is an index to measure the degree of coincidence between journal papers and subject research hotspots.This study mainly adopted bibliometric analysis method in order to analyse the basic development characteristics of red point factor of medical journals.SPSS22.0 was used to make descriptive statistical analysis of index data.T-test was used to compare between the groups.The correlation between red point factor and other evaluation indicators were did by Spearman correlation analysis.With test level taken as a=0.05,P<0.05 showed that the difference was statistically significant.Bicomb2.0 was used to count high frequency keywords of journal articles,so as to obtain the research hotspots and research trend of the discipline.Depth interview was used to understand the cognition,attitude and behavior of journal editors to red point factor.Results1.The mean value of red point factors of medical journals is 0.562.There are 340(51%)medical journals in the[0.50,0.75]range and 100(15%)medical journals in the[0.75,1.00]range.That is to say;more than half of the articles in Chinese medical journals belong to the hot field.2.The distribution patterns of red point factors in 9 disciplines are unreasonable,because the proportion of journals with low red point factor(range in[0.00,0.50))is more than 60%.The standard deviations of red point factor of 8 disciplines are greater than 0.203.There is significant difference between the red point factor of comprehensive medical journals and professional medical journals(P<0.05).Compared with professional medical journals,the average value of red point factors of comprehensive medical journals is higher,and the standard deviation is lower.4.Red point factor is positively correlated to 8 evaluation indicators in medical journals,such as total citation,comprehensive evaluation score,discipline diffusion index,authority factor,literature quantity,literature selection rate,quantity of AR papers,and organization distributing number(P<0.05,r>0).There is no correlation between red point factor and other evaluation indicators,such as impact factor,ratio of fund article and so on(P>0.05).5.66 percent of editors have a low awareness of red point factor,14 percent of editors use training courses or new media to learn the knowledge of journal evaluation,and 60 percent of editors have a positive attitude towards red point factor.Conclusions1.Medical journals play an important role in the core journals of science and technology in China.Medical journals have the strong ability to report research hotspot.2.The development of medical journals in China is uneven.There are differences in red point factor levers among different disciplines of medical journals in China.There are also differences in red point factor levels among different journals in the same discipline.3.Red point factor is suitable and reasonable as an important indicator for the journal evaluation.It shows that improving the red point factor is of great significance to improve the visibility of papers,academic authority,academic influence,comprehensive academic quality and interdisciplinary communication ability of journals.4.The impact factor and ratio of fund article can not fully reflect the academic level of journals,and the red point factor can make up for the lack of information in the process of their evaluation.5.Journal editors in China pay less attention to the red point factor.It sh ows that we must change the traditional concepts of journals editors,improve the continuing education and improve the incentive mechanism.6.The red point factor can be improved by controlling the number of published papers,establishing a library of high quality authors,focusing on the timeliness of references,actively paying attention to the evaluation indexes of periodicals,accurately excavate the research hotspots and trends of subjects,adjusting the direction of soliciting and organizing contributions,developing characteristic columns and so on.