Nature出版集团新审稿政策引巨大争议

2015-03-31 何嫱 生物通

Nature出版集团(NPG)旗下的一家期刊近期推出了一项试点计划:允许研究人员通过付费来获得更快速的同行评议,对此一些科学家表达了关切和担忧(推荐阅读:The scientist教你如何发表论文 )。自3月24日起,一些提交给Scientific Reports杂志的生物学论文可以获得加速审稿,条件是作者要为此付出额外的费用,当前的定价为750美元,该杂志承诺会在3周内决定投稿结果。Scient

Nature出版集团(NPG)旗下的一家期刊近期推出了一项试点计划:允许研究人员通过付费来获得更快速的同行评议,对此一些科学家表达了关切和担忧(推荐阅读:The scientist教你如何发表论文 )。

自3月24日起,一些提交给Scientific Reports杂志的生物学论文可以获得加速审稿,条件是作者要为此付出额外的费用,当前的定价为750美元,该杂志承诺会在3周内决定投稿结果。

Scientific Reports杂志是以一种开放获取的模式运作,读者可以完全免费访问该期刊的内容。开放期刊无法获取订阅收入。因此一些期刊转而向发表论文的作者收取费用。Scientific Reports杂志的收费价格为一篇论文1,495美元。

伦敦大学学院气候学家Mark Maslin是该期刊数千名志愿者编辑中的一员,他在3月26日的推特(Twitter)上宣布,由于这一快通道计划他已从编辑顾问小组辞职。这引起了许多其他的学者参与讨论这一问题,其中很多都反对这一试点计划。

Maslin说:“这显然触动了学术界的神经。”他认为这一政策会将资助经费不足的研究人员和较富裕的同事分割为两种独立的出版途经:“我认为这是建立了一个双层系统。”

总部设在伦敦的NPG旗下拥有Scientific Reports和Nature杂志,但两种期刊的编辑相互独立。在一份声明中NPG称:“一位编辑委员会成员辞职了。我们正在与他展开会谈以确保我们能完全理解他的担忧,我们清楚地与他进行了沟通,说明我们采取这一试点计划的理由,以及我们认为可以给研究人员带来的利益。”

同行评议的瓶颈

NPG在解释施行这一计划背后的依据时说,2014年在论文作者中展开的一项调查中发现,70%的人对同行评议时间过长感到失望,67%的人认为出版社应该使用可供选择的同行评议方法。

声明说:“Nature出版集团一直以科学家作为我们做事的核心所在,无论他们是作者、审稿人还是用户,我们在不断尝试对出版过程进行一些不同的改革。这个小试点计划是看看快通道同行评议服务是否会让作者和审稿人觉得有用。”

NPG与北卡罗来纳州的一家公司Research Square合作,提供这一快速通道系统。Research Square为作者提供诸如独立同行评议和稿件准备援助等服务。
试验期
Scientific Reports的这种服务当前正在试运行。NPG开放研究出版主任Nandita Quaderi在声明中对期刊的编辑委员会表示:“无论如何这一试验将不会影响我们的日常服务或是非快速通道论文的处理。快速通道决定将由内部编辑根据Scientific Reports杂志常规出版标准而做出。”

Scientific Reports编辑顾问小组成员、伦敦大学学院生物多样性和环境研究中心主任Georgina Mace说:“我担心它将会造成的后果。在某些科学领域人们有办法获得金钱,他们可以用这些钱来做这种事,但另一些领域则不行。”

她说,如果能够在论文发表过程中通过付费来插队,在那些发表论文数量受限的期刊中,一些资源充足的学科或研究小组有可能随着时间的推移损害到资源相对不足的同事。

当人们阅读期刊时,“他们希望得到的是最好的科学知识。我对这种双层系统真的抱有担心。”

原始出处:

Daniel Cressey.Concern raised over payment for fast-track peer review.Scientist resigns from NPG’s Scientific Reports journal over pilot project. Nature | News 27 March 2015


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