An exploratory, descriptive analysis is presented of the national orientation of scientific, scholarly journals as reflected in the affiliations of publishing or citing authors. It calculates for journals covered in Scopus an Index of National Orientation (INO), and analyses the distribution of INO values across disciplines and countries, and the correlation between INO values and journal impact factors. The study did not find solid evidence that journal impact factors are good measures of journal internationality in terms of the geographical distribution of publishing or citing authors, as the relationship between a journal's national orientation and its citation impact is found to be inverse U-shaped. In addition, journals publishing in English are not necessarily internationally oriented in terms of the affiliations of publishing or citing authors; in social sciences and humanities also USA has their nationally oriented literatures. The paper examines the extent to which nationally oriented journals entering Scopus in earlier years, have become in recent years more international. It is found that in the study set about 40 per cent of such journals does reveal traces of internationalization, while the use of English as publication language and an Open Access (OA) status are important determinants.

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Scopus 收录的面向全国的期刊是否变得更加国际化？出版语言和获取方式的影响

对科学、学术期刊的国家定位进行了探索性的描述性分析，反映在出版或引用作者的隶属关系中。它为 Scopus 涵盖的期刊计算国家定位指数 (INO)，并分析 INO 值跨学科和国家的分布，以及 INO 值与期刊影响因子之间的相关性。该研究没有发现确凿的证据表明期刊影响因子是衡量期刊国际性的良好指标，即就出版或引用作者的地理分布而言，因为发现期刊的国家定位与其引用影响之间的关系呈倒 U 形。此外，就出版或引用作者的隶属关系而言，以英文出版的期刊不一定是面向国际的；在社会科学和人文科学方面，美国也有面向国家的文学。该论文考察了早些年进入 Scopus 的面向国家的期刊在多大程度上变得更加国际化。研究发现，大约 40% 的此类期刊确实揭示了国际化的痕迹，而使用英语作为出版语言和开放获取 (OA) 状态是重要的决定因素。