China
China presents challenges and opportunities
Nicola Gulley is editorial director of IOP Publishing
The IOP Beijing office opened in July 2000. Our chief representative and editor-in-chief, Mingfang Lu, has been central to building links with key institutes, managing workshops on how to get published and liaising with partner titles within China. The number of papers published in
IOP journals from authors based in China has increased over 135 per cent between 1991 and 2008. This is against a background of increased competition and higher quality selection criteria. In 2001 rejection rates for journals were between 34 and 55 per cent. In 2009 the figure was between 55 and 85 per cent. We distribute our Chinese partner
In the August/September issue of Research Information we asked a range of people about the needs and challenges of Chinese researchers accessing information and communicating their research results. Now, Siân Harris asks what this means for Western publishers working in China, and for Chinese publishers wanting to move into international markets
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titles outside of mainland China in print and electronic versions and promote them along with IOP journals. We do not do the editorial, production or printing but do some pre–production English editing. We also do post production work such as hosting online articles, indexing and reference linking. However the partners are also investing in improvements to their own websites to make web access for submitting and accessing articles as easy as possible. A number of the partner titles we collaborate with within China also have very high rejection rates and high quality criteria but there is still a perception of lower-quality articles published in these journals, despite the journals also having good impact factors. Visibility is key to changing perceptions
of content. We recently launched our Asian-Pacific portal to promote and highlight key research from within the region. This links to local languages sites including
china.iop.org.
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