University of Science and Technology of China, China.
Independent Scholar, UK.
Public Underst Sci. 2017 Nov;26(8):925-936. doi: 10.1177/0963662517706607. Epub 2017 May 7.
Our statistical analysis of research publications in the prestigious scientific journals Nature, Science and Cell reveals that papers represented by an image on the journal's cover gain many more citations in the academic literature than those papers in the same journals that are not represented on the cover. Meanwhile, the number of images used by high-prestige journals is much higher than that used by journals in general, which indicates both the emergence of a new aesthetic of prestige scientific publication, and also that this aesthetic is relevant to journals' impact. Furthermore, there are significant differences in the use of images in different countries and in different disciplines.
我们对《自然》《科学》和《细胞》等著名科学期刊上的研究出版物进行的统计分析表明，在期刊封面上展示图片的论文在学术文献中的引用率要远高于同一期刊中未在封面上展示图片的论文。与此同时，高声望期刊使用的图片数量远远高于一般期刊，这既表明了一种新的声望科学出版物的美学的出现，也表明这种美学与期刊的影响力有关。此外，不同国家和不同学科在图片使用上存在显著差异。
