A comparative study on communication structures of Chinese journals in the social sciences

[Enrique Wulff]

Curiously enough this article does not analyze such resources like 
the 'Journal of dialectics of nature. ISSN 1000-0763' or institutions 
as known as the 'school of marxism and philosophy' at the South China 
university of technology.
Otherwise there is a lot of anti-Obama speech on the Web, and his 
attempt to normalize the relations between the United States and 
Russia, so the good learning environment in social sciences enjoyed 
there is obviated as a rule of thumb.

Enrique Wulff

At 15:47 22/02/2010, you wrote:
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>http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html I suspect that the 
>problem lies in the communist ideology - it was the same in the days 
>of the Soviet Union - Marxist/Leninism is presumed to be the only 
>philosophy/methodology needed to explain social life and for a 
>social scientist to explore different avenues was positively 
>dangerous. With the collapse of communism in Russia, social 
>scientists there and in the former dependencies are now exploring 
>Western social philosophy and, to a certain extent, anything Marxist 
>is considered suspect - a complete reversal of the previous situation.
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>Given the tight control of society in China, I imagine that looking 
>beyond Marxism for social explanation would also be considered suspect.
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>Tom Wilson
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>On 22 February 2010 14:33, Zhou, Ping 
><<mailto:Ping.Zhou at econ.kuleuven.be>Ping.Zhou at econ.kuleuven.be> wrote:
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>Dear David,
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>The "stagnation" is concluded based on two types of comparison: 
>comparison with natural and life sciences domestically and the 
>specialization comparison between Chinese and international communities.
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>Domestic comparison shows that China's world share of publications 
>in the social sciences lags dramatically behind that in the natural 
>and life sciences (see Figure 1 of the paper).
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>International comparison shows that China is less specialized than 
>its international counterparts. We argue that specialization links 
>to maturity of a discipline; less specialization may lead to slower progress.
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>The full text of the paper can be retrieved at:
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><http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3590>http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3590
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>With kind regards,
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>Ping Zhou
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>structures of Chinese journals in the social sciences
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>Dear Ping Zhou,
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>What do you mean by "stagnation" and how are you measuring it? This 
>seems like an odd conclusion to draw from a citation analysis.
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>David
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>On Feb 22, 2010, Zhou, Ping 
><<mailto:Ping.Zhou at ECON.KULEUVEN.BE>Ping.Zhou at ECON.KULEUVEN.BE> wrote:
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>Title: A comparative study on communication structures of Chinese 
>journals in the social sciences
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>Source: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and 
>Technology, forthcoming
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>Authors: Ping Zhou, Xinning Su, Loet Leydesdorff
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>Abstract: We argue that the communication structures in the Chinese 
>social sciences have not yet been sufficiently reformed. Citation 
>patterns among Chinese domestic journals in three subject 
>areas-political science and marxism, library and information 
>science, and economics-are compared with their counterparts 
>internationally. Like their colleagues in the natural and life 
>sciences, Chinese scholars in the social sciences provide fewer 
>references to journal publications than their international 
>counterparts; like their international colleagues, social scientists 
>provide fewer references than natural sciences. The resulting 
>citation networks, therefore, are sparse. Nevertheless, the citation 
>structures clearly suggest that the Chinese social sciences are far 
>less specialized in terms of disciplinary delineations than their 
>international counterparts. Marxism studies are more established 
>than political science in China. In terms of the impact of the 
>Chinese political system o!
>n academic fields, disciplines closely related to the political 
>system are less specialized than those weakly related. In the 
>discussion section, we explore reasons that may cause the current 
>stagnation and provide policy recommendations.
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