Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Nurse Educ Today. 2010 Jul;30(5):420-7. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.09.016. Epub 2009 Nov 10.
Publication in quality journals has long been a yardstick for measuring academic performance, although there is a divergence of opinions as to how to define and measure "journal quality". For some time the primary tools for assessing journal quality have been the ISI Journal Citation Reports and the Journal Impact Factors (JIFs), although it has been argued that these are less appropriate for practical disciplines such as nursing midwifery. In order to accurately reflect the nature of nursing and midwifery as a discipline, given the inherent flaws of using just one indicator of journal quality to assess performance overall, this project was designed to develop a tool which combined both objective and subjective methods to produce a ranking system which is specifically relevant to the disciplines of nursing and midwifery. This project succeeded in developing the Journal Evaluation Tool (JET), through extensive consultations with experts in the fields of nursing and midwifery. This tool may overcome some problems associated with the sole use of the journal impact factor, and may be utilised as an alternative measure of journal quality. The new tool was tested using a sample of 52 responding journals; and has now been disseminated to nursing and midwifery bodies in Australia and New Zealand, along with instructions for its use and recommendations for future research.
在质量期刊上发表文章长期以来一直是衡量学术表现的标准，尽管对于如何定义和衡量“期刊质量”存在分歧。一段时间以来，评估期刊质量的主要工具一直是 ISI 期刊引文报告和期刊影响因子（JIF），尽管有人认为这些工具对于护理和助产学等实践性学科不太适用。为了准确反映护理和助产学作为一门学科的性质，鉴于仅使用一种期刊质量指标来全面评估绩效存在固有缺陷，因此设计了该项目来开发一种工具，该工具结合了客观和主观方法，以制定一种特别适合护理和助产学的排名系统。通过与护理和助产学领域的专家进行广泛协商，该项目成功开发了期刊评估工具 (JET)。该工具可能克服了仅使用期刊影响因子所带来的一些问题，并且可以作为期刊质量的替代衡量标准。该新工具使用 52 种回应期刊的样本进行了测试；现已分发给澳大利亚和新西兰的护理和助产学团体，并附有使用说明和对未来研究的建议。
