经济学、社会学、法学和政治学研究的开放与知识共享——-基于中国社科期刊参考文献的比较研究

参考文献作为遵循社会科学研究规范的学术论文中的重要组成部分,其本身也具有相当的学术研究价值。在整理了社会科学的经济学、社会学、法学和政治学四个学科国内权威学术期刊所发表学术论文的参考文献数据的基础上,通过国内纵向和国际横向比较研究发现:经济学、社会学和国外接轨较快,法学、政治学和国外接轨较慢;各学科对外部知识的引用处于相对较低的水平;对比各个学科在1998年和2008年的跨学科引用情况后发现,经济学的自引参考文献比例下降明显,社会学、法学和政治学三个学科自引比例均有所上升。另外,社会学和法学这两个学科对经济学文献的引用较高。相对而言,政治学引用经济学文献的比例较低。对于国内跨学科研究并不发达的原因,跨学科学术期刊的缺乏是影响参考文献引用的一个重要因素,并且国内目前从事社会科学跨学科研究的人员也相对较少。

Openness and Knowledge Sharing of Economics,Sociology,Law and Politics:A Comparative Study on Citations of Chinese Social Science Journals

As an important part of academic papers which comply with the norms of social science research,citations themselves are of great research value.On the basis of the collection of citation data from top Chinese journals in economics,sociology,law and politics and on the basis of internal and international comparison research,we find that economics and sociology are more open to research abroad while law and politics are less open.And in these subjects,the level of citations to other social sciences is comparatively low.We also find that the percentage of self-citation in economics decreased significantly while that in sociology,law and politics increased moderately between 1998 and 2008 according to the results of the comparison of interdisciplinary citations.On the other hand,the percentage of interdisciplinary citation of sociology and law to economics are quite high,while the percentage of interdisciplinary citation of politics to economics is low.We think that the lack of interdisciplinary journals and the lack of researchers are two key reasons for the underdevelopment of interdisciplinary research in China.