Why Edit a Journal? Academic Irony and Paradox

Although journal editing is central to scholarly enterprise, helping to maintain academic standards and shape disciplines, it is frequently discouraged within the academic assemblages that depend on it. Following recent contributions by geographers to discussions on academic service such as book editing and reviewing, this article explores some ironies and paradoxes of journal editing. It first discusses the challenges of journal editing as well as its problematic place in “academic capitalism.” It then examines professional and personal rewards of journal editing. Despite strong disincentives, journal editing offers valuable opportunities for self-development and deepening professional networks, as well as for refining the discipline.     

地理学及部分相关学科SCI收录期刊介绍

将SCI收录的21种及中国进入科学引文索引和科学引文索引扩展版的地理学类目核心期刊进行了全面的揭示,包括英文刊名、汉译刊名、出版周期、原版刊号、最新影响因子、国际标准刊号、出版地、出版者、联系地址、最新期刊网址,期刊描述等全方位的期刊信息。期刊描述内容包括：期刊的创刊年以及期刊的发展,期刊主要内容及使用的语言,网站可免费获取的该刊目次和文摘及全文信息等。     

<地理科学>载文作者群统计分析

依据文献计量学原理,对1990～1999年间《地理科学》载文作者群进行了统计、分析,从中揭示了该刊作者群的时空分布特点及作者所属系统的分布规律,确定了作为该刊核心作者的数量,对作者的合作率、论文单元薯名数作了统计分析。同时从作者研究的角度肯定了该刊作为本学科核心期刊的合理性,这些分析可对地理学的队伍建设及该刊的发展提供可参考的依据。     

人文地理学的别样写作——《阅读与感知：人文地理笔记》阅读有感及其他

世界人文地理学的学术写作丰富多彩,有专著、指南、手册、教材、期刊论文、评论、书评、科普评论等。我们目前只重视论文和专著。在这种背景下,唐晓峰的非专著写作很独特,很吸引人。以《阅读与感知：人文地理学笔记》为例,分析了唐老师写作的特色。我们应当重视学术写作的多样性,尤其是教材和科普作品。     

地理信息科学领域国际学术期刊等级的调查分析

2013 年7 月至8 月,作者开展了首次“中国地理信息科学（GISci） 领域科研人员心目中的本领域国际学术期刊等级”问卷调查,对回收的37 份问卷进行分析后得出了中国（含港澳台地区） GISci 领域科研人员心目中的本领域55 种国际学术期刊排名情况。比较了本次调查结果与国际上此前公布的唯一一次、但无中国学者参与的GISci 领域国际学术期刊等级问卷调查结果间的异同。与SCI/SSCI 期刊影响因子相比照,发现目前SCI/SSCI 检索期刊总体上能较好地覆盖GISci 领域的国际学术期刊,但SCI/SSCI 期刊影响因子尚不能较好体现中国学者心目中本领域期刊的等级。本次问卷调查结果的公布能够促进GISci 领域的中国青年科研人员及研究生对本领域学术期刊的了解,避免目前常常仅以影响因子来评价本领域国际学术期刊所产生的偏颇。     

中国地理学期刊编辑出版研究的综述

通过全面收集和系统整理中国地理学类期刊编辑发表的编辑出版研究成果,总结分析中国地理期刊在期刊发展方面的特点,包括地理期刊的总体发展、主要期刊的发展历程、英文期刊的发展、中外期刊发展对比等。概括分析了中国主要地理期刊载文、人文地理学科刊文、主要期刊引文分析等方面的统计结果。最后,对中国地理期刊编辑在期刊与学科发展关系、期刊选题和办刊思路、提高期刊编辑质量、防止稿件重复发表、电脑与网络使用方法等5方面的研究做出了全面总结。     

世界各国区域研究期刊的出版特征

通过检索美国科学引文索引(SCI)、社会科学引文索引(SSCI)、工程索引(EI)、Scopus等国际期刊数据库以及相关学术组织网站中列举的国际地理期刊,整理和分析国际上区域研究期刊的基本信息,包括刊名、检索收录机构、刊期、出版机构、创刊年份和期刊网站六大基本信息。截至2016年,全球已有20个国家共出版了52种专门刊发区域研究的期刊。其中,12种区域研究期刊被SSCI收录。区域研究期刊的语种涵盖中文、英文、日文、法文、德文、俄文、波兰文、意大利文、西班牙文、葡萄牙文10种文字。最后,分析了区域研究期刊快速发展的主要原因。     

Concept Learning through Writing for Learning: Using Journals in an Introductory Geography Course

Abstract

To effectively use journals and other writing for learning tasks as critical thinking and learning tools, geographic educators need to draw from the education literature on concept learning. Using the literature on concept learning and critical thinking, geographic educators can construct different kinds of journal assignments that give students opportunities to personalize and understand concepts. I demonstrate that students, regardless of their sex, level of education, or previous coursework in geography, found journal assignments helpful in understanding human geographic concepts.     

30 years of IJGIS: the changing landscape of geographical information science and the road ahead

The International Journal of Geographic Information Science (IJGIS), established in 1987, is the first academic journal devoted solely to Geographical Information Science (GIS) research. This editorial highlights milestones of the journal development and its influences on the field. IJGIS research articles and special issues have been effective in publishing the state of the art and emerging research accomplishments. In light of the changing landscape of GIS, IJGIS welcome papers on meta-analysis studies, literature reviews, and research foresight. This editorial outlines the underlying thinking and expectations for these papers in future volumes. IJGIS aspires to publish research of high novelty and broad interest that pushes the boundary of fundamental and applied GIS. As an independent, multidisciplinary journal driven by the community of authors, reviewers, and readers, community support is key to realizing the aspiration of a major influence on GIS research.     

NETWORKS OF RELATIONS AMONG A SET OF GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNALS*

The network of interrelationships among a set of 22 geographic journals is investigated, using data on the frequency with which articles published in one journal cite papers published In another. The analysis considers journals published in 1970–1972 and 1980–1982. Journals with a focus on regional science weaken their connection to others in the set. The Annals retains its position at the core of the journal space that is identified using multidimensional scaling; Environment and Planning A invades the niche vacated by the regional science journals.     

The most-cited works in Geomorphology

We conducted a review and analysis of the references cited in articles published (1995–2004) in the journal Geomorphology and also solicited comments from the authors of the most-cited works on their major influences. Of the 31,696 unique works cited in the journal, only 22 were referenced at least 20 times, with the vast majority (92%) cited only once or twice. We divided the citations into the 10 most-cited books (i.e., complete volumes) and 10 most-cited papers (i.e., journal articles, book chapters, reports). A total of 23 different researchers were responsible for the 20 works, with one (Wolman) being an author or co-author of a quarter of them. Seven of the ten most-cited papers were based on work in the USGS in the mid-twentieth century, indicating a particularly fruitful time of geomorphic research and a particularly important cohort of scientists. Based on our citation analysis and author commentaries, we suggest that classic works in geomorphology are most likely to be those that provide useful knowledge and those that incorporate interdisciplinary perspectives.     

Vulnerability Studies: A Bibliometric Review

This article presents a bibliometric analysis of the vulnerability research field. We analyze 200 articles on vulnerability published between 1973 and 2012, in the context of the United States. The intent of this article is to compare the levels of activity of several academic disciplines and bodies of work in vulnerability scholarship and to examine which topics are most studied in them. Topic code use was assessed using the qualitative research data analysis tool Atlas.ti, which permits users to locate, code, and annotate article text fragments. Article categorization was measured both by coding first author organizational affiliation and using the ISI Web of Knowledge journal citation reports categorization scheme that assigns journals to a discipline; each article was coded by its journal category.     

Trends in Publication Outlets of Geographer‐Climatologists

A proportional shift in where geographer‐climatologists publish has occurred in recent decades. More than 1,500 journal articles published by members of the Association of American Geographers' Climate Specialty Group (CSG) in the period 1989–2005 were examined to determine where geographer‐climatologists are publishing. The analysis showed that members of the CSG cumulatively published at least ten articles in thirty‐seven different journals. No single journal accounted for more than 7 percent of the articles published. Although the absolute number of articles has remained relatively static, geographer‐climatologists published 21 percent of their articles in geography journals in 1989–1997, but only 11 percent in 1998–2005. These publication trends are likely to continue and may influence the status and prestige of geography journals and the discipline of geography.     

Development of a Journal: Some brief comments relating to the Part Index for the Australian Geographer, 1928-98

This commentary concentrates on the physical production of the Australian Geographer and developments of a related nature. As I cannot pretend to have read every paper published over the last 71 years, comment on content is very limited. I also wish to avoid overlap with already published retrospectives included in Volume 19, Number 1, and Volume 27, Number 1, of this journal. A full issue-by-issue index is included in Volume 30, Number 1, of the Australian Geographer (pp. 103-26): all major papers, but not some minor pieces, are listed. Some of the latter, when part of a series, are listed in Tables 1 to 4 in this commentary. A full alphabetical author index for the 71 years of the journal will be included in the next issue (July 1999) as Appendix B.     

Research impact within the international arid literature: An Australian perspective based on network theory

While research-article impact is routinely judged by citation counts, there is recognition that a much broader view is needed to better judge the true value of citations. This paper applies a developing framework based on the application of network theory, where the network consists of journal articles on arid-systems research which are listed on ISI Web-of-Science. Keywords were used to identify articles related to arid-systems research. Linkages between articles were defined by citations, and we bound our analysis by focusing on how the Australian subsample contributes to the international arid-systems literature. The analysis showed that impact based on how articles contribute structurally to the flow of knowledge within the literature offers an alternative metric to citation counts. The analysis also presented a partitioned view of the Australian arid literature. This showed that there exists some citation-based structure within the literature, and we showed this structure better describes the literature than a partition based on which journal articles are published in.     

中国地理与资源期刊集群化服务平台的发展与实践

学术期刊的集群发展已经成为国际趋势,国外出版集团稳居科技期刊的霸主地位,中国科技期刊的集群化发展还处于起步阶段。自2006年起,中国地理与资源期刊及其期刊人经过10年持续不断的努力,积极应对国内外期刊发展的机遇与挑战,勇于创新,已经基本形成中国地理与资源期刊集群化服务平台发展的战略构想,并成功地推出了拥有54家加盟期刊并且模块功能完备的集群化服务平台网站（www.geores.com.cn）、统一的在线采编系统、底层数据的结构化、富媒体出版、手机APP与微信服务公众号、数据出版、科研云助手系统、媒体宣传与推广、中国地理与资源权威专家库、中国地理会议服务系统、中国地理编辑出版年会、不定期的专题性期刊沙龙、《中国地理与资源国情快报》政策版与科普版、“具影响力中国地理期刊优秀论文”等14项具有显示度的期刊多元增值产品,事业思路清晰,行动果敢有力,工作扎实有序,集群功能完备,投入产出比高,极大地推动了中国地理与资源期刊由传统纸质出版向富媒体出版、由文献生产者向学科与社会集成型知识服务提供平台的两大根本性转型,这使得中国地理与资源期刊更加掌握了主动,把握了先机,开启了中国地理与资源期刊集群发展的新局面和新时代。     

Considering Refugees Through 100 Years of Geographical Review

Given the role of the American Geographical Society and its flagship journal, Geographical Review, in the Paris Peace Conference and its prominence in the discipline of geography ever since, this paper considers how the journal takes account of refugees in its pages from 1916 to 2018 using a bibliometric approach. The term “refugee” was tracked in every Geographical Review article published during this time period, using content to generate data and analysis in QSR NVivo. First, we identify key trends in scholarship over time, then we note the rise and fall of important key terms, and finally, we examine both the countries analyzed and how these geographies change over time. The results of this bibliometric analysis of refugees in Geographical Review reflect both global geopolitical dynamics and refugee governance structures, and broader trends in epistemology in the discipline of geography. Observations made on these trends and variations indicate a need to further explore shifting paradigms and master narratives, both past and emerging, built around the “refugee” concept and its treatment within the discipline of geography.     

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