Nestor Mark S, Fischer Daniel L, Arnold David, Berman Brian, Del Rosso James Q
Drs. Nestor, Fischer, Arnold, and Berman are with the Center for Clinical and Cosmetic Research in Aventura, Florida.
Drs. Nestor and Berman are with the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, with Dr. Nestor also serving in the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida.
J Clin Aesthet Dermatol. 2020 Jan;13(1):12-17. Epub 2020 Jan 1.
Clinical and experimental literature search has changed significantly over the past few decades, and with it, the way in which we value information. Today, our need for immediate access to relevant and specific literature, regardless of specialty, has led to a growing demand for open access to publications. The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) has been a long-time standard for representing the quality or "prestige" of a journal, but it appears to be losing its relevance. Here, we define the JIF and deconstruct its validity as a modern measure of a journal's quality, discuss the current models of academic publication, including their advantages and shortcomings, and discuss the benefits and shortcomings of a variety of open-access models, including costs to the author. We have quantified a nonsubscribed physician's access to full articles associated with dermatologic disease and aesthetics cited on PubMed. For some of the most common dermatology conditions, 23.1 percent of citations (ranging from 17.2% for melasma to 31.9% for malignant melanoma) were available as free full articles, and for aesthetic procedures, 18.9 percent of citations (ranging from 11.9% for laser hair removal to 27.9% for botulinum toxin) were available as free full articles. Finally, we discuss existing alternative metrics for measuring journal impact and propose the adoption of a superior publishing model, one that satisfies modern day standards of scholarly knowledge pursuit and dissemination of scholarly publications for dermatology and all of medical science.
在过去几十年里，临床和实验文献检索方式发生了显著变化，我们对信息的重视方式也随之改变。如今，无论专业领域如何，我们对即时获取相关和特定文献的需求导致对开放获取出版物的需求不断增加。期刊影响因子（JIF）长期以来一直是衡量期刊质量或“声望”的标准，但它似乎正失去相关性。在此，我们定义JIF并剖析其作为衡量期刊质量的现代指标的有效性，讨论当前学术出版模式，包括其优缺点，以及各种开放获取模式的优缺点，包括作者的成本。我们对未订阅的医生获取PubMed上引用的与皮肤病和美容相关的全文情况进行了量化。对于一些最常见的皮肤病，23.1%的引用文献（从黄褐斑的17.2%到恶性黑色素瘤的31.9%）可作为免费全文获取，对于美容手术，18.9%的引用文献（从激光脱毛的11.9%到肉毒杆菌毒素的27.9%）可作为免费全文获取。最后，我们讨论了衡量期刊影响力的现有替代指标，并提议采用一种更优的出版模式，一种能满足当今皮肤病学及所有医学领域学术知识追求和学术出版物传播标准的模式。
