Abstract
Bibliometrics and descriptive statistical analysis on the research papers published on the 74 kinds of journals of journalism and communication included in SSCI from 2005 to 2014 will be conducted through key variables, like annual distribution, regional distribution, research institutional distribution, authors distribution, frontier of research, knowledge base and its evolution, subject impact index, etc. From the qualitative and quantitative perspective, we will reveal the international posture of journalism research and the international prestige and potential problems in studies of journalism and communication in Mainland China to promote the internationalization process of domestic journalism and communication research.
Highlights
Journalism and communication is one of the most popular research directions in the humanities and social sciences and the internationalization of the research results is a major problem
We try to answer the following questions: 1) what kinds of form features do journalism and communication study papers included in SSCI take on? What are the evolution characteristics of them? 2) What major issues do journalism and communication study papers included in SSCI concern? What is the frontier area, the knowledge base and the evolution of the research? 3) What are the implications of these papers on the research field of social science?
3) For the knowledge base of the papers, we select the reference literature (References Cited field in SSCI database) of sample papers and use Citespace software to carry on the visual analysis, and use Excel and Endnote to carry out data processing and statistical analysis; 4) For the discipline influence of the papers, we select literature from sample papers(Citing Articles field in SSCI database) to carry on citation analysis to reveal the impact of journalism and communication studies included in SSCI on other social sciences field
Summary
Journalism and communication is one of the most popular research directions in the humanities and social sciences and the internationalization of the research results is a major problem. Some scholars believe that strengthening method training and grasping the international theory research is the key to improving the academic level of China’s journalism and communication studies (Liao et al, 2014). The analysis and discussion undoubtedly have given us great help to understand some part of the present international situation of the research on journalism and communication science. We try to answer the following questions: 1) what kinds of form features do journalism and communication study papers included in SSCI take on? What are the evolution characteristics of them? 2) What major issues do journalism and communication study papers included in SSCI concern? What is the frontier area, the knowledge base and the evolution of the research? 3) What are the implications of these papers on the research field of social science?
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