从国家基金立项看文化地理学研究的状况和趋势——基于知识生产的视角

Progress in Cultural Geography Research Reflected by the Projects Supported by the National Science Foundation of China: A Perspective of Knowledge Production

国家级研究基金资助是目前国内学科领域内最高级别的研究支持。自1991年以来国家社会科学基金、国家自然科学基金项目分别资助文化地理学科16项和47项基金项目,促进了近20年来中国文化地理学发表成果的增长。论文通过文本分析法,研究国家基金资助下的中国文化地理学科发展区域分布现状、研究特点与质量。研究发现受基金资助的学者产出效率大致呈现上升态势;学科申请依托的学科门类逐渐向社会科学转向,学科间的交叉呈现多元化特征。课题依托单位几乎集中在几个重点院校,呈现圈层放射状分布。研究区域大致覆盖东部,中西部地区研究少,在长三角、珠三角地区多次被作为文化研究对象。在学科内部,获得基金资助的作者之间具有一定的学科内在关联。研究反映了近20年来中国文化地理研究的学术轨迹和发展趋向,有助于中国文化地理学者了解和把握中国文化地理学发展趋势及相关基金项目的申请。

Since 1991, a total of 63 foundation projects of cultural geography have been supported by the National Science Foundation of China （NFSC）, one of the highest levels of research support in China, including 47 projects in Natural Science and 16 projects in Social Science, reflecting the development trend in the field of cultural geography, and advancing the growth of cultural geography literatures in the past 20 years. This research explores the funding characteristics and the current regional distributions of cultural geography research in China under the support of the NFSC by examining the quality of the production of NSFC by text analysis. A knowledge production function was used to measure the actual performance of project items by explaining the inputs and outputs of the subjects. Our research finds the optimistic trend that scholars supported by the fund generally make output efficiently. Most of the research institutions of cultural geography are located in the coastal cities, in a few research centers which have delivered key researchers. Much of cultural study area covered in the east, especially in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions, while the central and western regions of China are less studied. The projects are becoming interdisciplinary, in both social sciences and applied subjects. This result of this paper reflects the academic track of Chinese cultural geography in the past 16 years, providing a reference for the relevant fund applications and for understanding and grasping the development trends of cultural geography.