The Research Purpose, Methods and Results of the "Annual Report for International Citations of China's Academic Journals"

Before 2012, it was hard to come to a comprehensive evaluation of academic journals in China. For this reason the international influence of journals published in China hadn’t been paid enough attention, leading to a bias in the Chinese research assessment system. Since 2012, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) invested and carried out the project of the development of the “Annual Report for International Citations of Chinese Academic Journals ”. In the same year, CNKI made a comprehensive study on the international citations of more than 6000 journals in China, and found that some journals had a certain international influence. In order to make a comprehensive assessment of the international influence of those journals, CNKI has developed a comprehensive indicator, named the CI index (clout index), combining the effect of both the impact factor and the citation counts. This article describes the purpose, methods and results of part of this project, providing a fresh idea for a comprehensive evaluation of the influence of Chinese academic journals. Conference Topic Methods and techniques