地理学期刊与地理学的传统——西方主要国家地理学期刊评价

SCI是世界公认的自然科学领域最为权威的研究成果检索和评价工具,另一方面,一门学科的学会刊物也是反映该领域最重要研究成果的平台。在许多自然学科领域,学会会刊都是SCI的必检刊物,但世界各国多数地理学会的会刊却都不在SCI索引之列。这就产生了一个疑问:如何来评价地理学的研究成果?本文认为,地理学刊物的评价应该遵循其学科特点,以会刊作为成果评价的核心更符合实际。本文介绍了英美德法日等主要国家的地理学会和会刊的情况,并借此呼吁,在当前以SCI期刊论文作为第一标准的中国学术行政体制下,应维护地理学自身的发展规律,保持地理学的传统,建立合理的地理学研究成果评价体系。

AN INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN GEOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS OUTSIDE SCI

Chinese geographers tend to consider SCI to be the most authoritative and scientific valuation standard to geographic treatises. But on the other hand, another idea also is carried through that the association publications should be the most important stage to exhibit the geographic treatises. In many disciplines of natural science, the association publications have been embodied into SCI. In geography, however, most of the association publications are classified out of SCI. Then, every geographer has to face a question, that how to choose a scientific valuation to the geographic treatises? Geography is different from mathematics, physics, biology and most of other natural science, because much of the geographic studies have to be based on the lo-cal knowledge, local culture, local context, and local geographic phenomena in particular places and times. Usually it is difficult to have a discussion smoothly about a result of geographic research between two geographers which have different geographic knowledge. The fact means, the results of geographic researches are usually evaluated better by the professorial geographic group who have similar geographic knowledge than by the group who have different geographic knowledge or contexts. In order to avoid the incorrect valuation to the geographical treatises, this paper attempts to introduce the main geographical publications including the publications of the geographical societies, the publications of the associations of geographers, and the other academic geographical journals in western countries such as America, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Japan. In conclusion, the paper suggests what kind of scientific valuation can be carried through into Chinese geographical context. That means not only SCI, but also association publications.