Abstract:

In recent years, the fund paper ratio, being regarded as an important index of journal evaluation, has been the focus of the journal. Taking download frequency, citation frequency and secondary literature selection index as the constituent elements of the academic influence and the articles supported by funds published in 20 college journals for the study sample, this paper finds from the empirical study that there is no necessary connection between fund papers and their academic influence. The fund papers published in the journals selected in the CSSCI are highly concerned by readers, and these papers also have high academic quality. But it is not the case to the fund papers which are not published in the CSSCI journals. National fund papers, whether published in the CSSCI journals or not, are highly concerned by readers, but these national fund papers do not have higher academic quality than other fund papers. In the practice of editing work, we should take an objective and rational attitude towards fund papers in order to really improve the academic quality of journals.

Key words: Fund paper, Download frequency, Citation frequency, Secondary literature selection index, Journal evaluation