The Effects of Cognitive Style Differences of Young Editors of Scientific and Technical Journals on Review Information Elements——Based on Field-independent/Field-dependent Dimensions
The cognitive style of individual editors touches the core indexes such as the quality of journal content,which is related to the reputation and influence building of journals.By mining academic claims in the field of science and technology intelligence,the practice and research results of extracting thesis big data show that individual differences in cognitive styles significantly affect the attention to different information,thus affecting the efficiency and quality of information search.Editorial review belongs to the same behavior of information search and judgment,therefore,individual differences in editorial cognitive styles affect the information elements paid attention to in reviewing manuscripts,thus affecting the judgment on the quality of manuscripts.Field-independent young editors tend to pay attention to the quality of manuscript content,the needs of the editorial body and the editor's own preferences;field-dependent young editors tend to pay attention to the author's profile,the form of the manuscript,and the behavior of their peers.In view of this difference,young editors should establish an information domain and make full use of the resources of scientific and technological journals'social groups to enhance their soft power.The editorial department should strengthen the contact with the academic community and expand the reviewing thinking of young editors,so as to avoid the reviewing bias caused by the difference of individual cognitive styles in multiple ways.Nesting cognitive style into the field of editorial work has certain theoretical significance and practical value for improving the objectivity and fairness of young editors reviewing scientific and technical journals and promoting the high-quality development of journals,and is also a great exploration in the field of editorial psychology.
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