Discussion on development of Chinese academic journals in comparative perspective

[Purpose] In order to recover the development process of Chinese academic journals practices by the dimension of academic studies,the development of theories research about academic journal at home and abroad,were contrasted and summaried deeply. [Methodology]The key literatures on the topic of "academic journal"in CSSCI and Wo S databases during 1998- 2013,as the research object,were investigated with the methods of bibliometrics,visualizing display,content analysis and comparation and analysis. The different characteristics about the tendences of literature number published with years going on,about the main constitutions of the authors and the institutions,about the know ledge bases and about the research hotspots over time,were studied,and then uncovered. [Findings]The differences on academic journal publishing activities between at home and at abroad,were explored primarily,such as the different development stages,the different driving force constitutions and the different research hotspots,etc.,and then several serious problems,slowing the Chinese academic journal publishing development,were obtained from these differences. [Conclusions] To improving chinese academic journal publishing rapidly, the journal managers and publishers should be striving from the crucial aspects,such as talents in modern publishing,surroundings for academic publishing,publishing platform,journal-cluster spreading mode and information service level of journal resources.