从元素分析造假漏洞入手严把国外来稿学术质量关

按照国际惯例只含C,H,N,O,S,Cl的化合物两次实测值的绝对误差为正负0.3%，与理论值的绝对误差也应为正负0.3%，这样才算通过的；如含其它杂元素（F,P,Br,金属等）的化合物两次实测值的绝对误差为正负0.5%，与理论值的绝对误差也应为正负0.5%，这样才算通过的；还有一些特殊情况，如当化合物中的F含量>50%时，绝对误差可放宽到正负1.0%，以上是个国际惯例，在元素分析中是没有成文的规定，当然也可以按照相应期刊的要求。有事可与我联系。

从元素分析造假漏洞入手严把国外来稿学术质量关

蒋晓晖

（中国科学院上海有机化学研究所联合编辑室Chinese J Chem 编辑部, 200032，上海零陵路345号）转载出处: 编辑学报, 2008, 20(2): 109-111,略有修补

摘要为了确保化学类科技期刊的学术质量，元素分析实验值的造假应当检测和杜绝。由于元素分析通过起来往往不那么容易，一些投稿到Chinese J Chem 的外国作者就伪造其实验值去拟合其理论计算值。特别是当分子式出错后，列出的元素分析实验值却仍然奇怪地与其理论计算值很好地吻合。对此唯一的解释就是这些实验值不是真正实测出来而是明知故犯人为随意地捏造出来的。这种造假具体地说来有四类。审稿者和责任编辑对每一个新化合物的元素分析数据都应从重新独立地计算其理论值出发认真地审核。一旦发现造假，则毫不留情地坚决退稿，并将造假作者打入黑名单。

关键词元素分析、实验值、数据造假、国外来稿、学术质量、编缉学术把关

Academic quality control over foreign submission to Chinese J Chem via independently recalculating and checking its elemental analysis data

JIANG Xiaohui

Abstract In order to guarantee the academic quality of chemical periodicals, fabrication of elemental analysis found data should be examined and prevented. Because it is not so easy for a new compound isolated and generally purified to pass the elemental analysis, some foreign contributors to Chinese J Chem frequently forge

some found values of the elemental analysis to conform to the calculated ones. Especially, when a molecule formula was wrong, the found values were still in good agreement with the calculated ones based on the wrong formula, which can be explained only by that such found data are not obtained objectively via a real experimental determination but forged subjectively by the author(s) optionally. The data fabrication can be detected by referees and/or editors in charge via independently recalculating and checking the elemental analytical data. There are four kinds of such data fabrications observed in the foreign submission to Chinese J Chem. Once a data fabrication is detected via such a means, the corresponding manuscript should be rejected without delay and the author(s) be included in the black list.

Keywords elemental analysis、found value、data fabrication、foreign submission、academic quality、editor’s academic control

Author’s address CJC Editorial office of Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China

作为一种SCI收录的化学类学术期刊[1]，Chinese Journal of Chemistry正越来越多地吸引着国外投稿。可是，学术研究中的害群之马不但国内有，国外也不乏其人，当然也就难以保证在本刊众多的外国投稿者中就没有造假者。虽然这些来稿的英文写作大都较差，需要化大力气去修饰，但相对说来对其学术质量的审查把关，特别是对造假实验数据的严防死守，显然更为重要。笔者在长期受理一些Chinese J Chem国外来稿时发现，这些稿件除了大多英文文字较差，内容比较陈旧以外，不少确实还存在着严重的实验数据造假现象。因此随着本刊的进一步国际化，面对越来越多的国外来稿，如何查假打假严把国外来稿学术质量关，不让外国学术研究黑马在本刊有可乘之机,正成为我们亟待解决的燃眉之急。