社科领域期刊作者贡献声明政策的调研与建议

【目的】 对国内外社科领域期刊作者贡献声明(Author Contribution Statement,ACS)政策进行调研,为国内社科领域期刊编辑部制定和完善ACS政策提供借鉴和参考。【方法】 调研国内外社科领域期刊网站上发布的ACS政策,调查内容包括:是否有ACS强制性要求及理由;提交ACS的时间与方式;ACS呈现形式;写作格式;ACS要素术语等。【结果】 在国外的17个社科领域内,都有期刊制定并实施了ACS,而ACS在我国社科期刊中没有得到普及。782种CSSCI收录的社科期刊中只有18种期刊有ACS政策,占比仅2.3%,涉及的领域包括中国文学、考古学、新闻学与传播学和图书馆、情报与文献学。国外期刊采用自由文本和采用CRediT受控词汇的期刊约各占一半。国内社科期刊都是采用自由文本表述形式,没有采用CRediT受控词汇表述方法。国内期刊ACS政策存在ACS表述较为简单、没有规定提交时间与方式、呈现形式不统一、写作格式不统一等问题,可从建立分层ACS政策、鼓励作者提交ACS,采用CRediT贡献分类法为基础规范表达ACS,与ORCID建立关联3个方面进行补充完善。【结论】 我国社科期刊很少制定实施ACS政策。建议社科期刊编辑部采用分层政策来推广实施ACS,采用规范的作者贡献要素术语,提高作者贡献的透明性和可获取性。

A survey of author contribution statement policy in social science journals and strategies

[Purposes] This paper investigates the author contribution statement (ACS) policies of social science journals in China and abroad, which is expected to serve as a reference for the formulation and improvement of ACS policies of Chinese social science journals. [Methods] Specifically, ACS as a mandatory requirement or not and the reasons, time and way of submitting ACS, position of ACS in papers, writing format of ACS, and terminologies of ACS elements were surveyed. [Findings] Foreign journals in each field of social sciences have ACS policies. By comparison, 18 out of 782 CSSCI journals have such policies, accounting for 2.3%. These 18 journals cover fields like Chinese literature, archeology, journalism and communication, and library and information sciences. Half of foreign journals stipulate the free-text style for ACS and the other half the CRediT taxonomy for ACS, while all the Chinese social science journals designate free-text style for ACS. The problems on ACS of Chinese social science journals are simple content, no specified submission time and way, and no uniform position and writing format. We suggest Chinese journals adopt tiered ACS policies to encourage the submission of ACS, standardize expression of ACS on the basis of CRediT taxonomy, and associate ACS with author ORCID. [Conclusions] A few Chinese social science journals have published ACS policies. Thus, Chinese social science journals should adopt a tiered method to promote the implementation of ACS policies and stipulate standardized terminologies to improve transparency and accessibility of author contributions.