Scholarly editors and their role in improving quality of world-class scientific journals in China
[Purposes]The study aims to provide information for building the editorial talent team for developing world-class scientific journals in China.[Methods]We explored the concept,characteristics,academic role,and source of scholarly editors and discussed the running of journals,editorial talent development,cultivating potential,and development feasibility of scholarly editors.[Findings]For scholarly editors,professional academic literacy is their core literacy.Scholarly editors play an important role in improving the content quality of scientific journals through topic selection planning,solicitation,manuscript examination,attending academic conferences,etc.Scholar introduction and editor professionalization are the two main approaches to scholarly editor talent team building.Under the main models of journals running in China,scholarly editors are the main force in improving the content quality of journals.A division management and valuation for editors should be implemented,to leverage the academic capacity of academic editors rather than simply encouraging them to develop towards versatile talents.Non-academic work of academic editors should be avoided,as it causes resource waste and difficulty in realizing expert publishing.Given the high proportion of highly educated editors in scientific journals in China,and subject scholars being involved as part-time editorial board members and chief editors,the development of scholar editors is feasible with great potential.[Conclusions]The cultivation of scholar editors in China is an important part of the talent team building for the development of world-class scientific journals,and a key factor in improving the content quality of scientific journals.
Scholarly editorScientific journalContent qualityIntegration of editing and research
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