Author(s)

Zou Xiaoyong ¹, Li Jin ¹, Shu Anqin ¹, Duan Siyi ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Journal Center, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Chongqing, China

Corresponding Author

Zou Xiaoyong

ABSTRACT

To address the core challenges faced by pharmaceutical periodicals, such as uneven source quality, insufficient citation impact, and unreasonable structure of contributing institutions, this study takes China Pharmacy as a typical case, integrating quantitative data from the Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD, 2022-2024) and qualitative evidence from its off-site manuscript finalization practice since 2021. It systematically explores the innovative logic of the "review + academic exchange + precise service" trinity model in optimizing the review mechanism, integrating disciplinary resources, and upgrading source structure, and verifies its practical effectiveness through empirical data. The results show that this model has significantly promoted the high-quality transformation of the journal: the proportion of funded papers has risen to 97.71% (2024), with manuscripts funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology achieving a higher average citation frequency of 2.29 times per paper; the proportion of manuscripts from zero-yield or low-yield institutions has decreased from 17.35% to 12%; the number of highly cited papers has broken through, and the influence in the field of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been consolidated (70% of top citing journals are TCM-specific); the proportion of zero-cited papers has dropped by 7.48 percentage points. This study provides a replicable paradigm for similar pharmaceutical periodicals to achieve high-quality development through mechanism innovation and data-driven optimization, and enriches the theoretical research on the operation mode of scientific and technological periodicals.

KEYWORDS

Pharmaceutical Periodicals; Off-Site Manuscript Finalization Meeting; High- Quality Development; Data-Driven; Citation Impact; Contributing Institution Structure; China Pharmacy

CITE THIS PAPER

Zou Xiaoyong, Li Jin, Shu Anqin, Duan Siyi. Data-Driven Innovation: How Off-site Manuscript Finalization Meetings Boost the High-Quality Development of Pharmaceutical Periodicals—Evidence from China Pharmacy. Media and Communication Research (2026). Vol. 7, No.1, 67-74. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/mediacr.2026.070111.

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