Abstract:

The paper sorts out 9 journal databses in China, to research their influences on science and
technology journals. The results show that these databases are independent of each other but their journal
data are significantly different. In addition, their journal selection strategy and methods are different with
respect to the journal evaluation results. So their academic guidance is somewhat being debated. The
results also show that some journal evaluation indexes in our evaluation system significantly lag behind the
development of academic journals in China. The weights of some evaluation indexes are too large, such
as paper quantity, the percentage of funded paper and soon. In this circumstance, the function of scientific
journal evaluation may be distorted unexpectedly. This paper analyzes these problems and the induced
risks in our current journal evaluation system, such as market-drive, under which the journal evaluation
results may reversely determine academic evaluation. Based on these analysis, this paper proposes some
suggestions to optimize evaluation system of journals, to promote the development of academic journal
healthily and orderly.