Chinese Universities' Cross-Border Research Collaboration in the Social Sciences and Its Impact

Liu, Yang1; Ma, Jinyuan2; Song, Huanyu1; Qian, Ziniu1; Lin, Xiao3

2021-09-01

10.3390/su131810378

SUSTAINABILITY   影响因子和分区

2071-1050

This paper examined the coauthorship patterns in Chinese researchers' cross-border research collaboration in the social sciences based on articles and reviews indexed in the Scopus database (2010-2019). We explored the evolution of coauthorship patterns by proportion of collaboration, year, research field, country/region, and research institution; additionally, the quality/impact of the coauthored publications was examined using four levels of paper quality (Q1-4), citations per paper, and FWCI. We found that collaboration between Chinese and international scholars is very common, and more than 40% of all papers published by Chinese scholars from 2010 to 2019 involved cross-border collaboration. The growth in collaboration was very steady over the past 10 years, increasing by an average of 20% per year. United States scholars are the most common research collaboration partners for Chinese scholars in the social sciences, followed by those in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. The field of psychology seeks the most collaboration, followed by economics and finance, business and management, and social issues. The percentage of Q1 papers increased from 36% in 2010 to 66% in 2019. Thus, in the past 10 years, Chinese scholars' cross-border collaboration has grown extensively in terms of both quantity and impact.

cross-border research collaboration Chinese university international influence citation

SCI ; SSCI

英语

通讯

National Natural Science Foundation of China[71774011] ; Beijing Municipal Social Sciences Foundation[18JDJYB008] ; Beihang University Talent Support Project in the Humanities and Social Sciences[YWF21BJW213] ; the Education and Scientific Research Project of Guangdong, "How to develop cross-disciplinary "new liberal arts" in a world-class science and engineering university"[2018GXJK158]

Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology

Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies

WOS:000702122400001

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Web of Science

1.Beihang Univ, Sch Humanities & Social Sci, Inst Higher Educ, Beijing 100191, Peoples R China
2.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Ctr Higher Educ Res, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China
3.Reed Elsevier Informat Technol Beijing Co Ltd, Beijing 100738, Peoples R China

Liu, Yang,Ma, Jinyuan,Song, Huanyu,et al. Chinese Universities' Cross-Border Research Collaboration in the Social Sciences and Its Impact[J]. SUSTAINABILITY,2021,13(18).

Liu, Yang,Ma, Jinyuan,Song, Huanyu,Qian, Ziniu,&Lin, Xiao.(2021).Chinese Universities' Cross-Border Research Collaboration in the Social Sciences and Its Impact.SUSTAINABILITY,13(18).

Liu, Yang,et al."Chinese Universities' Cross-Border Research Collaboration in the Social Sciences and Its Impact".SUSTAINABILITY 13.18(2021).