运用科学计量学中的聚类分析和社会网络等方法,分析SSCI数据库中收录的44种人文地理学期刊之间的关系。首先在Web of Science中检索期刊的共被引次数矩阵,计算共被引率矩阵,然后进行CONCOR聚类分析和网络结构分析。统计中国地理学者发表的SSCI地理学论文,分析中国地理学期刊在Web of Science中的被引情况,定量考察中国地理学在国际学术界的影响。
The authors analyze the relationship of 44 human geography journals indexed in JCR-SSCI (2008). Firstly, we search the matrix of co-citation amounts among journals in Web of Science using Cited Reference Search, which could get the complete co-citation matrix, and calculate the co-citation ratio of the matrix and make clustering analysis. Then the authors make CONCOR cluster analysis and co-citation network analysis with the co-citation ratio matrix of 44 journals. We compartmentalize four main sub-clusters of human geography journals, multidisciplinary journals, economic/industrial geography journals, environment geography journals, culture geography journals and geographic information systems journals. Then the authors study the influence of China's geography on the international academic arena. Among 73012 articles in 52 geography journals retrieved in SSCI published from 1975 to 2007, the authors from Mainland China only participated in 319 articles, accounting for 0.44% of the total. For the 426 highly cited papers (cited more than 50 times) in 73012 articles, China has two highly cited papers (cited more than 50 times), when the overall number is 426 among all the 73012 articles. With regard to the international influence of Chinese geography journals, the authors select 11 geography journals published in Mainland China, then search the citation situation in Web of Science. The results show that 11 Chinese journals have been cited 1565 times from 1975 to 2007, of which Acta Geographica Sinica has been cited 792 times, indicating that China's development of Geography still lags behind the developed countries, such as United States, England, Canada, etc.