Citation - Perakakis, P., Taylor, M., Mazza, M., & Trachana, V. (2010). Natural selection of academic papers. Scientometrics, 85(2), 553-559.
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學術論文的天擇
Abstract
學術論文，就像基因一樣，為概念或技術創新編碼，進而構成與轉變科學有機體，並擴大到整個社會。
Academic papers, like genes, code for ideas or technological innovations that structure and transform the scientific organism and consequently the society at large.
基因是天擇過程的主體，確保適者生存，並成為物種的表現型態。
Genes are subject to the process of natural selection which ensures that only the fittest survive and contribute to the phenotype of the organism.
然而，學術論文的天擇過程，與自然有所不同。商業營利的出版商控制了科學資訊的評估與取用，以及隨後的知識傳佈與進步。
The process of selection of academic papers, however, is far from natural. Commercial for-profit publishing houses have taken control over the evaluation and access to scientific information with serious consequences for the dissemination and advancement of knowledge.
學術作者與圖書館員努力發展免費(自由)取用期刊、學術機構的自我典藏、以及全球性學科圖書館，作為替代的出版系統。
Academic authors and librarians are reacting by developing an alternative publishing system based on free-access journals and self-archiving in institutional repositories and global disciplinary libraries.
儘管有這些新興的發展趨勢，期刊仍然壟斷著學術社群，控制著論文選擇與設定學術標準。
Despite the emergence of such trends, the journal monopoly, rather than the scientific community, is still in control of selecting papers and setting academic standards.
我們主張一種動態且透明的同儕評閱，相信能讓學術加速轉變為一個完全開放且免費的科學環境，讓最適的概念得以延續。
Here we propose a dynamical and transparent peer review process, which we believe will accelerate the transition to a fully open and free-for-all science that will allow the natural selection of the fittest ideas.