学术期刊计量评价“标尺”之争及其科学运用

期刊计量评价指标对学术期刊的资源优化配置、出版质量和水平的提升有重要作用。介绍了当前主要的三种期刊计量评价指标体系及其评价方法,分析了CSSCI及《中文核心期刊要目总览》两大核心期刊评价指标体系的优势及不足,并指出应摒弃＂唯核心＂论,将《中国学术期刊影响因子年报》（JIF）在评价期刊质量方面的重要价值放在更加突出的位置;分析、阐述了以JIF为＂标尺＂对于持续提高学术期刊办刊质量的显著作用。     

核心期刊评价功能之检讨

核心期刊已经越来越引起人们的关注,在有些高校和科研单位把论文能否发表在核心期刊作为奖励和职称晋级的依据,核心期刊的作用日益凸显,已全然演变成了一种评价尺度,已逐渐成为学术理论期刊的一种身份、地位的标志,对职称评定愈来愈发挥着＂重要的作用＂.核心期刊评价功能所产生的歧异和误导作用,是连核心期刊的研制者都始料不及的.应当针对目前＂核心期刊＂现象对核心期刊的由来和初始目的以及泛化、异化、评价功能等进行剖析和理论阐述,以正本清源,还核心期刊的科学定位.     

本刊再次入选全国中文核心期刊

近日收到北京大学图书馆《中文核心期刊要目总览》2008年版编委会的人编通知：《经济纵横》人编《中文核心期刊要目总览》2008年版的综合性经济科学类核心期刊。《中文核心期刊要目总览》2008年版评选课题组对核心期刊评价采用了定量评价和定性评审相结合的方法。定量评价指标体系采用了被索量、被摘量、被引量、他引量、被摘率、影响因子、获国家奖或被国内外重要检索工具收录、基金论文比、Web下载量等9个评价指标。选作评价指标统计源的数据库及文摘刊物达80余种,统计到的文献数量共计32400余万篇次,涉及期刊12400余种。     

投稿须知

《技术经济与管理研究》杂志是北京大学图书馆列入的全国中文核心期刊,2008年列入北大图书馆中文核心期刊要目,是山西省一级期刊。国内刊号为CN14—1055／F。2011年被中国科学评价研究中心、武汉大学图书馆和中国科教评价网评选为经济学RCCSE权威核心期刊;2012年被入选为2012年版“复印报刊资料”重要转载来源期刊。全文被中国知网（CNKI）、     

热烈祝贺《现代经济探讨》入选中文核心期刊

<正>2009年新年之际,又传喜讯,《现代经济探讨》杂志被《中文核心期刊要目总览》2008年版编委会确定为经济学类核心期刊。该版核心期刊定量评价采     

基于h指数和g指数的高等学校学术表现评价应用研究

学术表现评价是高等学校做好人才引进培养、个人/团体绩效评估、专业技术职务晋升等工作的前提和基础,运用何种科学的方法进行学术评价是高等学校所面临的重要课题。运用h指数和g指数相结合的信息计量学评价方法,运用SPSS软件进行实证研究。研究表明,h指数在评价学者学术影响力时较好地综合了学者科学产出的质量和数量,而g指数则在h指数的固有优势的基础上进一步优化了评价指标,以更客观方法进行评价。     

全国最具影响力的经济学理论类核心期刊之一——《经济纵横》

<正>《经济纵横》是全国创办最早、影响较大的经济类核心学术期刊。创刊28年来,《经济纵横》在"中文社会科学引文索引(CSSCI)来源期刊"、"全国中文核心期刊"、"中国人文社会科学核心期刊"三大核心期刊评价系统评比中     

热烈祝贺《现代经济探讨》入选中文核心期刊

<正>2009年新年之际,又传喜讯,《现代经济探讨》杂志被《中文核心期刊要目总览》2008年版编委会确定为经济学类核心期刊。该版核心期刊定量评价采用了被索量、被摘量、被引量、     

SCI、中文核心期刊与高校科研论文水平的评价

在没有完善的高校科研绩效评价体系的前提下,为弥补现行定性评价的不足,引入SCI收录和中文核心期刊作为定量评价的标准。由于对这两种文献检索工具的功能认识不够全面等原因,导致其被“泛化”、“滥用”甚至“异化”。文章对SCI和中文核心期刊的功能和缺陷做了简要描述,并对在高校科研论文水平的评价方面正确应用SCI收录和中文核心期刊提出了自己的见解。     

热烈祝贺《现代经济探讨》入选中文核心期刊

2009年新年之际,又传喜讯,《现代经济探讨》杂志被《中文核心期刊要目总览》2008年版编委会确定为经济学类核心期刊。该版核心期刊定量评价采用了被索量、被摘量、被引量、他引量、被摘率、影响因子、获国家奖或被国内夕卜重要检索工具收录、基金论文比、Web下载量等9个评价指标。     

Pleasure and belief in Hume's Decision Process

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way a hedonist – evidently different from Bentham's or Jevons' way – we lay emphasis less on continuity than on the specific kind of hedonism encountered in Hume's writings (chiefly the Treatise, the second Enquiry, the Dissertation, or some of his Essays). Such hedonism clearly contrasts to its standard modern inheritance, expressed by the relation between preferences and utility.

The reason for such a difference with the usual approach lies in the mental process that Hume puts to the fore in order to explain the way pleasure determines desires and volition. Whereas pleasure is primarily, in Hume's words, an impression of sensation, it takes place in the birth of passions as reflecting an idea of pleasure, whose “force and vivacity” is precisely a “belief”, transferred to the direct passions of desire or volition that come immediately before action. As a result, from a Humean point of view, “belief” deals with decision under risk or uncertainty, as well as with intertemporal decision and indiscrimination problems.

The latter are explored within a formal framework, and it is shown that the relation of pleasure is transformed by belief into a non-empty class of relations of desire, among which at least one is a preorder.     

Globalization,Neoliberalism and the attack on social security

Neoliberal political movements advocate privatization of public pension systems. Globalization imposes pressure on nations to conform to neoliberal policy views with respect to the design and structure of social insurance, including public pension systems. The paper begins with an investigation of the economic, ethical and ideological dimensions of the privatization debates in the U.S.; it argues that privatization advocates may be largely moved by ideology, since the other reasons advanced appear weak or unfounded. The second part discusses the history of Social Security, the purposes for its creation, and some of its economic effects. Differences between public and private pension systems are considered. A brief international comparison of some aspects of public pension system finance and benefit structures is presented. The final section considers the ethical, macroeconomic and distributional implications of privatization, prefunding and payroll tax funding, and argues for a pay as you go system financed with income taxes. In order to promote equity, economic security, community, and social cohesion, public pension systems should be universal in coverage. In order to reduce the inequality, income insecurity, and aged poverty generated by market economies, public pension systems ought to be progressive: benefit/contribution ratios should be inversely proportional to income, and progressive income taxes should finance the system. To promote economic growth, the systems should be financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, and should not be prefunded except for an emergency reserve. The fiscal policy recommendations partially depend upon the theory developed by Abba Lerner in the 1940s, and recently advanced by Wynne Godley and Randy Wray: Lerner's “principle of functional finance.”     

Interest on reserves and inflation

The payment of interest on reserves has been a common practice in inflationary economies. This policy may seem paradoxical since it involves returning part of the seigniorage, generated by the inflation process, with the intention to finance the fiscal deficit. This paper argues that the motivation for this policy can be captured by the discretionary regime, where the policymaker pays interest on reserves because he is concerned with the erosion of real liquidity by inflation, which is in part beyond his control. However, this policy is an unlikely outcome in the commitment regime, where the policymaker is in full control of inflation.     

Bayesian estimation of duration models: An application of the multiperiod probit model

The multiperiod probit model is presented and Bayesian estimation using the Gibbs sampler with data augmentation is described. As an empirical illustration, the multiperiod probit model is then used to estimate a duration model using employment duration data for the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Bayesian estimation with unobserved heterogeneity is shown to be a simple extension of estimation of a duration model with no unobserved heterogeneity. More importantly, perhaps, some numerical problems encountered by other authors using Maximum Likelihood are avoided.I would like to thank M. Baker, G. Koop, A. Melino and D. Poirier for helpful comments and discussions. I would also like to thank M. Baker for providing his data.     

Scenarios and creativity: Thinking in new boxes

To be creative and make change happen, leaders must do more than simply ‘think outside the box’, as the traditional business manuals suggest, using the popular American expression. After all, the space outside the box is infinitely expansive. Moreover, there can be no guarantee that a solution to the problem will be found. The answer: ‘Think in new boxes.’ This requires developing the right new box; in other words, useful new models, a helpful new approach to a problem. That is the real art of practical creativity. This short article outlines the approach (Thinking in New Boxes) and its application to classic scenario planning with a few examples. The authors also present the ‘Expressway to Scenarios’, an approach that wins in impact and practicality what it loses in deep analysis, by having top executives involved in key steps.     

On the Role of Paradigms in Understanding Economic Globalization

Any adequate analysis of economic globalization necessarily requires fundamental understanding of the worldviews underlying the views expressed with respect to the nature and role of economic globalization. This paper is based on the premise that any worldview can be associated with one of the four basic paradigms: functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist, and radical structuralist. It argues that any view expressed with respect to economic globalization is based on one of the four paradigms or worldviews. It, therefore, discusses four views with respect to the nature and role of economic globalization which correspond to the four broad worldviews. The paper emphasizes that the four views expressed are equally scientific and informative; they look at the nature and role of economic globalization from a certain paradigmatic viewpoint. Emphasizing this example in the area of economic globalization, the paper concludes that there are opportunities for each paradigm to benefit from contributions coming from the other three paradigms.     

A Humean theory of choice of which rationality may be one consequence

For the reader who considers economic theory of choice as a special case of a more general theory of action, Hume's discussion of the determinants of action in the Treatise of Human Nature (1739?–?40), in the Enquiry on Human Understanding (1748) and in the Dissertation on Passions (1757) deserves attention. However, according to some modern commentators, Hume does not seem to have given any evidence that would favour what nowadays we would consider as the kind of rationality involved in modern theories of rational choice. On the contrary, this paper arrives at the conclusion that consistency between preferences and choice, like the usual properties of completeness and transitivity, may be considered as outcomes of a mental process, described by means of a decision algorithm that aims to represent Hume's theory of choice.     

The concept of freedom and its relation to economic development--a critical appreciation of the work of Amartya Sen

Following a brief review of the conception of freedom as employedin economic discourse, this paper focuses on the evolution ofthe concept of freedom in the work of Amartya Sen. It tracesthe development of Sen's thought from the capability analysisof the late 1970s to his more recent separation of freedom intoits opportunity and process aspects. While broadly appreciativeof Sen's development of the concept of positive freedom, thepaper identifies some difficulties arising from his definitionof capability as a set of options as well as from his separationof the opportunity and process aspects of freedom. Aspects ofthe relationship between Sen's conception of freedom and thatof Marx are discussed briefly in the context of Sen's recentdiscussion of the market as a source of freedom.     

How chaebol restructuring after the 1997 crisis has affected corporate decision and performance in Korea: debt financing,ownership structure,and investment

ABSTRACT

Korean chaebol firms, characterized by excessive debt financing and overinvestment, experienced restructuring after the 1997 crisis. By reducing debt financing and thus overinvestment, they tried to reorganize financing structure and ownership structure. Chaebols’ debt reduction turns out to have improved performance. However, polarization between chaebol and non-chaebol firms has become more significant. Even after the crisis, firms that give higher cash flows to a controlling shareholder take more capital investment, indicating that agency problems still exist within chaebols. Chaebol-affiliated firms continue to be more active in R&D than non-chaebol firms. However, the pattern is limited to the group of top 10 chaebols after the crisis.

Abbreviations: KFTC: Korea Fair Trade Commission     

Types of technology

Technology is a concept rife with confusion. Here, I argue that technologies can be distinguished as a combination of type of producer and an idealized artefact life history. Using this definition, a number of technologies are identified. The first technology historically, in the Protostomes, was the production of individual or family dwellings. Next came objects such as spider webs for trapping prey. Stigmergy followed, with the social insects, as a collective endeavour to construct a mega-structure using simple rules of accretion. Some birds and primates began to make tools, or simple technological objects whose function is closely related to their form. Humans are distinguished by their ability to make machines. Traditional technology took place once people voluntarily organised into groups with specialised knowledge to produce more complex objects and structures. Monumental objects like ceremonial pyramids came with the command economies of the early agrarian societies, which also resulted in a new category of artefact, the network. Finally, with modern civilizations came ad hoc accretion, or population-level adding-on, to make truly complex technological systems. Developing a theoretical framework within which artefacts, production processes and ways of interacting with them are identified should help the study of technology to become more scientific.