Editorial

IF 4.6 1区 文学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Recall Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1017/s095834401900020x
A. Boulton
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ReCALL is published by Cambridge University Press but owned by EUROCALL, who updated their mission statement this year. To reflect this, ReCALL has also taken a look at its aims and scope and made a number of changes; the new text features on the inside front cover and on the journal homepage, as does the list of people participating in work for ReCALL. Continuing the policy established in 2016, a third of the members of the Editorial Board have been contacted to renew their membership; among the Associate Editors, Linda Bradley and Frederik Cornillie have had to stand down due to changing work commitments. They will not be leaving us entirely though, as both have agreed to stay on the Editorial Board. Pascual Pérez-Paredes and Shona Whyte join us as Associate Editors in their stead, and both have been assigned their first papers within the ScholarOne system – a steep learning curve at the start! Our heartfelt thanks to all concerned for the work they do. This year we sought proposals from Guest Editors for a new special issue of ReCALL to be published in 2021. Four high-quality projects were submitted, and after discussion by the Editorial Board during the annual EUROCALL conference in Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, the proposal by Elena Martín-Monje (UNED, Spain) and Kate Borthwick (University of Southampton, UK) was accepted on the topic “Researching massive open online courses for language teaching and learning.” The call for papers is now out, and we look forward to receiving your submissions. ReCALL’s impact factor, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics, has dropped from 2.206 to 1.361 in 2018, slightly above the figure for 2015. This might sound disappointing, but ReCALL is still among the top journals in CALL and in the top 50 journals in linguistics as a whole. More telling, nearly 3,000 articles were downloaded from ReCALL every month in 2018. There are good reasons to be wary of impact factor and other bibliometric measures, as I noted last January when the figures were higher: “While such metrics have their uses, they also have their limits, especially in fields such as human and social sciences with relatively low figures: what counts is the quality of submissions and publications in providing first-class research in the field.” The low numbers in fields such as linguistics mean that major fluctuations are inevitable and partly random, and not particularly meaningful: it might be likened to asking someone if they would like 1.4 or 2.2 grains of sugar in their coffee – you would be hard pressed to taste the difference. So why are the scores so low in linguistics and related fields? First, in the main calculation, any references that are more than two years old do not contribute to the impact factor of the sources cited. In linguistics, the half-life of publication is more than 10 years (i.e. half the references are more than 10 years old), as the field does not evolve as fast as in, say, biology or psychology, and it can be important to establish continuity by referring to older work. Second, the turnaround in linguistics is generally quite slow: if a paper takes two years from submission to publication, any references again will not contribute to the impact factor. In fields such as biochemistry, it is not uncommon for papers to appear online within a month of submission. In ReCALL, and other journals, all I can say is that we try to be as quick as possible but could always do better. Anyway, the point is that a high impact factor is always nice, but we should be careful not to rely too heavily on it. The San Francisco Declaration on Research
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ReCALL由剑桥大学出版社出版,但归EUROCALL所有,EUROCALL今年更新了他们的使命声明。为了反映这一点,ReCALL还审视了其目标和范围,并做出了一些改变;新的文本出现在封面内侧和期刊主页上,参与ReCALL工作的人员名单也是如此。根据2016年制定的政策,已联系编辑委员会三分之一的成员续签成员资格;在副主编中,Linda Bradley和Frederik Cornellie因工作承诺的变化而不得不辞职。不过,他们不会完全离开我们,因为他们都同意留在编辑委员会。Pascual Pérez Paredes和Shona Whyte作为副主编加入我们,他们都被分配到了ScholarOne系统中的第一篇论文——一开始是一条陡峭的学习曲线!我们衷心感谢所有关心他们所做的工作。今年,我们向客座编辑征求了将于2021年出版的《ReCALL》新特刊的建议。提交了四个高质量的项目,经过编辑委员会在比利时Louvanila Neuve举行的EUROCALL年度会议上的讨论,Elena Martín-Monje(西班牙UNED)和Kate Borthwick(英国南安普顿大学)就“研究大规模的语言教学开放在线课程”的主题提出的建议被接受,我们期待收到您的意见书。根据Clarivate Analytics的计算,ReCALL的影响因素已从2.206降至2018年的1.361,略高于2015年的数字。这听起来可能令人失望,但ReCALL仍然是CALL的顶级期刊之一,也是语言学的前50名期刊之一。更能说明问题的是,2018年ReCALL每月有近3000篇文章被下载。有充分的理由对影响因素和其他文献计量指标保持警惕,正如我去年1月指出的那样,当时的数字更高:“虽然这些指标有其用途,但也有其局限性,尤其是在数字相对较低的人文和社会科学等领域:重要的是提交材料和出版物的质量,以提供该领域的一流研究。“语言学等领域的低数字意味着重大波动是不可避免的,部分是随机的,而且没有特别的意义:这可能被比作问某人咖啡中是否想要1.4或2.2粒糖——你很难尝到其中的区别。那么,为什么语言学和相关领域的分数如此之低呢?首先,在主要计算中,任何超过两年的参考文献都不会对所引用来源的影响因素产生影响。在语言学中,出版的半衰期超过10年(即一半的参考文献超过10年),因为该领域的发展速度不如生物学或心理学,通过参考较老的作品来建立连续性可能很重要。其次,语言学的转变通常相当缓慢:如果一篇论文从提交到发表需要两年时间,那么任何再次引用都不会对影响因素产生影响。在生物化学等领域,论文在提交后一个月内出现在网上并不罕见。在ReCALL和其他期刊上,我只能说,我们尽可能快,但总是可以做得更好。无论如何,关键是高影响因素总是好的,但我们应该小心不要过于依赖它。旧金山研究宣言
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