Editing Practice https://www.hksmp.com/journals/ep Scholar Media Publishing en-US Editing Practice 2790-1580 The core components and the survey on importance of professional quality of chief editor, editorial director and editor of sci-tech journals in China https://www.hksmp.com/journals/ep/article/view/547 <p><strong>Background:</strong> This study aims to explore the core elements of the professional quality of the chief editor, editorial director, and editor of sci-tech journals and to analyze the understanding of the importance of the professional quality of the editorial team. <strong>Methods</strong><strong>:</strong> The core elements of the professional quality of the chief editor, editorial director, and editor of sci-tech journals are summarized into basic quality, professional quality, comprehensive quality, and excellent quality. They are then defined and explained using the literature research method. In addition, a questionnaire on the core professional quality of the chief editor, editorial director, and editor of sci-tech journals was designed to investigate the cognition status of the importance of professionalism among editors of sci-tech journals. <strong>Results:</strong> The survey results show that editors are the direct executors of journal operations and need to master basic quality and improve professional quality. The editorial director is the main manager of the work of sci-tech journals, and it is necessary to comprehensively strengthen the promotion of various professional qualities. The chief editor is the main person at the helm of the academic quality of sci-tech journals and needs to have a higher academic level and a more rigorous work attitude. They should pay attention to improving professional quality and excellent quality. <strong>Conclusion</strong><strong>:</strong> The chief editor, editorial director, and editor of sci-tech journals should focus on different professional quality training specific to their practice. Professional quality evaluation standards should be established to provide a reference for the evaluation system of sci-tech journal editors.</p> Jiajia Wu Jing Yu Yinchao Fang Jingzhou Wang Jie Xu Copyright (c) 2024 Editing Practice https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-03-29 2024-03-29 2 10.54844/ep.2024.0547 The The assessment of scholarly books in China: A short review https://www.hksmp.com/journals/ep/article/view/515 <p>As a unique type of scientific production, the assessment of scholarly book has been recently revalued under the trending Chinese technology policy. This article performs a survey of different attempts applied to various assessment problems for scholarly book, such as comprehensive assessment framework, the localization of international impact measurements the improvement measures, and the theorical recognition from different angles. The paper analyzes the questions of what, who, and how to reach an eventual integration with scholarly book assessment platforms. The conclusions indicate that the exquisite categorization and the negotiated criteria framework are firstly needed to be studied in order to initiate an assessment project of scholarly book in China.</p> Lulu Wang Fei Chen Copyright (c) 2024 Editing Practice https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-01-31 2024-01-31 2 10.54844/ep.2023.0515