Národní odborné časopisy a analýza H-indexu členů jejich redakčních rad

Petr Novotný; Vanda Janštová; Romana Schubertová; Karolína Kotvaltová Sezemská

doi:10.14712/23362189.2021.1904

Vol. 71 No. 2 (2021) Analytical report

National Journals and Analysis of H-index of Editorial Board Members

Petr Novotný, ¹ Vanda Janštová, ² Romana Schubertová, ³ Karolína Kotvaltová Sezemská, ⁴

PhDr. Petr Novotný, Ph.D. - Univerzita Karlova, Přírodovědecká fakulta, Katedra učitelství a didaktiky biologie, Viničná 7, Praha 2, 12800; novotp@natur.cuni.cz, +420 221 951 040
RNDr. Vanda Janštová, Ph.D. - Univerzita Karlova, Přírodovědecká fakulta, Katedra učitelství a didaktiky biologie; Viničná 7, Praha 2, 12800, vanda.janstova@natur.cuni.cz, +420 221 951 040
Mgr. Romana Schubertová, Ph.D. - Univerzita Mateja Bela, Fakulta prírodných vied, Katedra biológie a ekológie, Banská Bystrica, Tajovského 40, Banská Bystrica, 974 01; romana.schubertova@umb.sk, +421 484 467 148
Mgr. Karolína Kotvaltová Sezemská, Ph.D. - Univerzita Karlova, Přírodovědecká fakulta, Katedra učitelství a didaktiky biologie, Viničná 7, Praha 2, 12800; sezemskk@natur.cuni.cz, +420 221 951 867

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23362189.2021.1904

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Abstract

National journals are important means of fostering dialogue on the aims of individual fields. The members of the editorial boards of these journals can influence the codification of the standards of manuscripts published in the given field, and therefore they are referred to as gatekeepers, i.e. “choosing which content and form of scientific communication is acceptable”. We can use scientometric data to get at least a rough idea of the composition of editorial boards. Although similar analyses are common in foreign journals, we did not find such a study dealing with national journals. Therefore, in a model set of Czech and Slovak journals in the field of pedagogy and didactics of biology, we searched the WOS database for the H-index of members of editorial boards and compared local and foreign members in terms of this criterion. We managed to find the H-index of most local and foreign members; the incompleteness of the data was caused by ambiguity in the interpretation and assignment of data available in the WOS database. We showed statistically significant differences in the H-score (average H-index of members of editorial boards) between some journals. The Kruskal-Wallis test was used for this analysis. Using the Mann-Whitney U test, we showed that the index of a journal in the Scopus database has no significant effect on the H-score of the journal. The contribution of foreign members of editorial boards to the H-score of the journal was, compared to the contribution of local members, significantly higher in only three journals; in the others the contribution of local and foreign members was balanced (Pearsonʼs chi-square test).

Keywords national professional journal editorial board H-index H-score didactics of biology biology teaching

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National Journals and Analysis of H-index of Editorial Board Members

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