Paper by Lu Jianping of SIS Rated No.1 Among Top 20 by BioMedLib

Paper by Lu Jianping of SIS Rated No.1 Among Top 20 by BioMedLib

September 10, 2012

Since its publication on Journal of Zhejiang University-Science B (Biomedicine & Biotechnology) in June, 2011, the academic paper by Lu Jianping of SIS has been rated No.1 twice by BioMedLib among the 20 most influential papers in periodical research.

BioMedLib is an international biomedical search engine (SE), serving to rate automatically Top 20 papers in each academic field among tens of thousands of papers in MEDLINE database. Developed and managed by Biomedical Library of University of Minnesota, U.S., BioMedLib is aimed at assessing the influence of a paper in certain specific field. The search engine collects statistics and creates a ranking automatically every month, and then the database manager will send the notice to the authors of Top 20 papers.

Authorized by the country’s GAPP (General Administration of Press and Publication), Lu Jianping, assistant director of Institute of Media for Foreign Language Teaching, Zhejiang University, together with her team, plays a long-term role of scrutinizing the contents, editing and proofreading among English periodicals published in mainland China. Using 2007 and 2010’s inspecting results of the use of English language in the editing of academic journals, Lu’s paper revealed the current situations of the use English language in China’s academic journals and came up with a solution to problems during the internationalization process of China’s academic journals. The honor of being rated No.1 by international Academic Information Retrieval System indicates intensive attention paid to the editing quality of Chinese periodicals from international academia. Also, it suggests that the publication of academic influence on domestic periodicals can still be focused and recognized by internal academia.

                                                                                           (Translated by CHEN Qian)