Gengyan Tang

University of Calgary · Werklund School of Education

This study reports on a novel phenomenon observed in scholarly publications. Some research articles unrelated to the field of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated content (AIGC) contain phrases such as ‘As an AI language model …’ The authors conceptualize this phenomenon as ‘AIGC footprints.’ To provide early evidence, they conducted a small-scal...

The lists of questionable journals are regarded a policy or tool to ensure research quality and integrity. However, due to their lack of clear criteria, they remain highly debated. Taking a typological perspective, we assess the reasonableness of the lists of questionable journals by examining how well it reflects the differences in bibliometric at...

This letter to the editor argues that if academic journals are willing to accept papers that include NLP-generated content under certain conditions, editorial policies should clarify the proportion of NLP-generated content in the paper. Excessive use of NLP-generated content should be considered as academic misconduct.

The academic community requires not only responsible research but also responsible academic journals. An exploratory study of Chinese-language academic journals that used mixed methods found Chinese-language academic journals on the humanities and social sciences exhibiting a widespread status bias. Most of them summarily rejected submissions from...

“Some institutions have issued blacklists of academic journals in China and use them as a basis for research evaluation. However, due to a lack of transparent formulation criteria, the characteristics of blacklisted journals remain unclear. Using blacklisted academic journals of the East China University of Political Science and Law, this study ana...

Previous studies have found that factors such as gender and academic positions do not influence the severity of administrative actions taken by institutions. However, this study provides partly inconsistent evidence. It focuses on incidents of research misconduct in hospitals across Mainland China and explores factors related to punishment using a...

Previous studies (Long et al. 2023) have found that factors such as gender and academic positions do not influence the severity of administrative actions taken by institutions. However, this study provides inconsistent evidence; it focuses on incidents of research misconduct in hospitals across Mainland China, exploring factors related to punishmen...

The lists of questionable journals are regarded a policy or tool to ensure research quality and integrity. However, due to their lack of clear criteria, they remain highly debated. Taking a typological perspective, we assess the reasonableness of the lists of questionable journals by examining how well it reflects the differences in bibliometric at...

This study reports on a novel phenomenon observed in scholarly publications. Some research articles unrelated to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) generate content (AIGC contain confusing phrases such as “As an AI language model...”. We conceptualize this phenomenon as “AIGC footprints”. To provide early evidence, we conducted a small-scale...

This correspondence calls on academic journals and the academic community to revisit the concept of "the originality of research".

This letter to the editor points out weaknesses in the editorial policies of some academic journals regarding the use of ChatGPT-generated content. Editorial policies should provide more specific details on which parts of an academic paper are allowed to use ChatGPT-generated content. If authors use ChatGPT-generated content in the conclusion or re...

Research methods are an important part of the disciplinary system. It is difficult to show the structure and trend of research methods in publishing. The article takes 6 CSSCI (Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index) publishing journals, including Publishing Journal, Science-Technology & Publication, Publishing Research, Modern Publishing, China Pu...

Peer review in scholarly publishing determines the allocation of resources for scholarly publishing and governs the order of scholarly communication. Based on social action theory, this paper first summarizes the current situation of the peer review crisis in scholarly publishing, and then explains how all actors in peer review (authors, editors, a...

The preprint platforms have been given the important mission of fighting academic monopoly and realizing academic freedom from the beginning of theirs birth, and they have gradually established a 'decentralized' scientific communication system in the course of development. First, this study combs the previous literature. The results show that: (1)...

In China, master’s students in humanities and social sciences (HSS) are becoming the main target of Chinese-language predatory journals. Existing research has not paid enough attention to why these students publish papers in Chinese-language predatory journals. This research interviewed 30 HSS master’s students with different majors using semi-stru...

[Purposes] To define the concept of "Review Transparency Principle" in Chinese academic journals, summarize its implementation status, and then summarize and design the specific contents to provide reference for Chinese academic journals to improve the transparency of reviewing manuscripts. [Methods] First, use the concept of logic to define the co...

The research was based on the framework theory of communication and took the articles of The Lancet on the WeChat official account platform from 2018 to 2019 as the research objects. These articles were devided into the groups of high-views and low-views. With the help of the chi-square test, this research analyzed the differences between the two g...

The email interviews and literature research were conducted to summarize the strategy and experience of The New England Journal of Medicine in responding to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 ( COVID-19) incident in the production of content, the supervision and regulation of content, the presentation of content and so on. The New England Journal of Medi...

Based on publication delay under the “COVID-19” context, the study dug into causes for the problem. With comparisons to the time lag between Chinese and English version periodicals and strategies on shortening the publication delays, it was discovered that long publication delays, inadequate solutions, context errors and other problems were typical...

Taking the public opinion event of“COVID - 19”on foreign life science platforms : medRxiv and bioRxiv as an example， this paper analyzes the public opinion governance dilemma faced by preprint platforms. According to research，the social communication of scientific research personnel，the amplified propagation of mass media and the misleading propaga...

Taking the journalistic data and communication journals from 2014 to 2018 as samples， the quantile regression model and quantile regression model are established to test the influence of published articles in journalistic and communication journals on academic influence. It is found that the influence of the published articles in journalistic and c...

In China, master’s students in humanities and social sciences (HSS) are becoming the main target of Chinese-language predatory journals. Existing research has not paid enough attention to why these students publish papers in Chinese-language predatory journals. This research interviewed 30 HSS master’s students with different majors using semi-stru...

[Purposes] This paper is to summarize the characteristic elements of Chinese predatory journals and provide references for scientific researchers and scientific research evaluation institutions to identify Chinese predatory journals. [Methods] Based on the grounded theory and semi-framework interview survey, 12 researchers with profound experience...

As the difference from traditional commodity trade, copyright trade not only transmits economic value with real products as carriers, but also transmits cultural value with subject consciousness as form, which often occupies an important position in trade friction. This paper summarizes the position of copyright trade in Sino–US trade friction from...