中国传播学研究国际发表的现状与反思

The International Publications of China's Mainland's Communication Research:The Current State and Critical Reflections

2018年是改革开放40周年,也是中国传播学迅猛发展的第40个年头。本文通过对全球传播学SSCI期刊论文进行文献分析,希望更加全面地呈现中国传播学研究国际发表的现状。研究发现,中国传播学的国际发表在全球起步较晚,但近10年来发展迅速,论文总量已经跻身全球前十,仅论中国大陆学者发表的论文也可以排到全球15位左右。作者学科来源呈现多元化,新闻传播学科的学者,不论是发表论文的数量,还是被其他学者引用的频次,都未能形成主导性优势。研究视角高度同质化,主要体现在三个领域:以网络成瘾为代表的心理和行为研究,以技术采纳为代表的产业和政策研究,以公共领域为代表的舆论和参与研究。理论贡献仍然有限,虽然已经跨过了早期对经典传播学理论的介绍和验证阶段,开始对这些理论进行延伸和发展,但距离创建原创性传播学理论的目标还有距离。

2018 not only marks the 40th anniversary of China＇s reform and opening up, but also witnesses the four decades of rapid development of communication research in China. Through a bibliometrics analysis of Social Sciences Citation Indexed journal articles in the field of communication, this article seeks to depict a big picture of the international publications of China＇s communication research. Results show that Chinese scholars did not publish on SSCI journals until early 1990s, but the quantity of the publications climbed sharply in the recent decade to the ranking of global top 10. Even the number of journal articles published by scholars in China's Mainland can be ranked 15th in the whole world. These scholars are from a good variety of disciplines, while journalism and communication scholars have yet established a leading role in the international publications of communication research, including both article amount and citation frequency. The research agenda are highly concentrated to three areas, psychology and behavior research exemplified by Internet addiction, industry and policy research around technology adoption and use, and public opinion and political participation research based on the theory of public sphere. The theoretical contribution is still limited. While Chinese scholars have gone beyond the early phases of introducing and validating Western communication theories, and have started extending and developing these theories, the founding of original communication theories remains to be an arduous journey for Chinese scholars to accomplish.