我国政治学研究的国际贡献与学术影响力

Academic Contribution and Global Impact of China's Political Science Research

构建中国特色政治学的学术、学科与话语体系是中国政治学界关注的焦点议题。这一研究路径探索需要中国学者立足中国本土实践的同时提升全球学术话语的影响力。以国际期刊论文为研究对象,研究综合多源数据对中国在政治学研究领域的国际贡献与学术影响力进行了实证探索。研究甄别了我国政治学在国际发表上受到关注的五大议题。分析显示:四十余年来,中国政治学人的国际发表队伍不断壮大且梯式明显、研究内容日益拓展、在国际合作中的主导地位持续加强、所影响的学术群体也日趋多元。但中国政治学研究的国际贡献和影响力依然存在较大上升空间。相较其他社会科学研究领域,中国政治学的国际显示度不高且增速偏慢,缺乏高影响力学者和重量级作品等掣肘问题仍明显存在。研究指出,中国政治学研究的国际贡献与学术影响力是中国社会科学国际学术话语权建设的一个缩影。未来中国特色政治学的三大体系建设应在批判性借鉴吸纳西方政治学理论的基础上,聚焦新时代中国社会和全球格局的新发展、新变化,加强政治学“真问题”的理论研究和实践总结。

One of the most frequently discussed themes among Chinese political scientists is the positioning of political science with Chinese features manifested in discipline,scholarship,and discourse systems.To achieve this goal,Chinese scholars must both research China-based big questions while promoting its global influence.Using multiple data sources,this paper adopts the international academic discourse model of the 5 Ws(i.e.,"Who speaks-What content-to Whom-by Which-How effective")to investigate the international contribution and impact of China's political science research from the aspects of research team,investigated topics,international cooperation,knowledge diffusion,and others.The study identifies five major Chinese political science topics that have received significant attention from the international academic community.The analysis shows that over the past 40 years,China has made remarkable strides on the global stage of political science research.This is evidenced by the steady expansion of Chinese institutions participating in and leading international publications and the increasing diversification of both research content and geographic scope of influence.Yet,there is still much room for improvement in increasing the contribution and influence of Chinese political science research.Compared with other fields in the social sciences,China's political science research has had relatively low international visibility and experienced sluggish growth.It also suffers from constraints,such as the lack of high-impact scholars and journal gatekeepers.This study also reveals an unbalanced distribution of research strength within the Chinese political science community.The top 10 most productive universities account for 56% of all China's political science research. Three higher educationinstitutions outperformed all other universities in China's Mainland, but the gap has been closing over the last decade.This finding remains consistent for the four methods of whole counting, first-author counting, corresponding-authorcounting, as well as fractional counting.This study argues that the academic contribution and global impact of Chinese political science research reflects thestatus quo and dynamics of the development of Chinese social sciences in general. In the future, the construction of thethree major systems of political science with Chinese characteristics should be based upon critical borrowing and incorporationof Western political science theories, focusing on the new developments and changes in Chinese society and theglobal landscape in the new era, and strengthening the theoretical research and practical summarization of the "real problems"of political science.