"Bringing in" and "Going abroad": A bibliometric evaluation of the internationalization of archaeology in Mainland China.

ABSTRACT: Chinese scholars' performance in international academic community and research on foreign archaeology has brought hot discussion about the internationalization of Chinese archaeology. Based on the databases of the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and the Web of Science core collection (WoS), this paper collected archaeology-related papers published by Chinese scholars in Chinese and world core journals (CCJs and WCJs for short), then filtered translated and original articles about foreign archaeology in CCJs, as well as all original archaeological articles in WCJs. Using Excel, CiteSpace and VOSviewer visualization software, we analyzed these data to give a bird's-eye view of how archaeology research in Mainland China has become internationalized. Chinese archaeology has seen

SUBMITTER: Wei X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10239220 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature