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Article: Enduring Hardships in Global Knowledge Asymmetries: A National Scenario of China’s English-language Academic Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences

TitleEnduring Hardships in Global Knowledge Asymmetries: A National Scenario of China’s English-language Academic Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Authors
KeywordsEnglish-language scholarly journals
Humanities
Social sciences
China
Academic dependency
Global knowledge flows
Issue Date2020
PublisherSpringer Netherlands. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0018-1560
Citation
Higher Education, 2020, v. 80 n. 2, p. 237-254 How to Cite?
AbstractSince the 2000s, China has been fast establishing English-language academic journals to further internationalize research. This article delineates a national scenario of such journals in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) and explores their efforts and predicaments in bringing China’s HSS research to the world. Based on first-hand data collected empirically through interviews and documents, it shows that HSS English-language journals in China attempt to challenge yet are conditioned at the same time by the imbalanced international knowledge structure. While still at a preliminary stage of development in terms of quantity and quality, the journals have already been confronted with major challenges including English language hurdles, unfavorable position in research evaluation systems, unfamiliarity with standards of international academic writing and publishing, and tensions between international ambition and local commitment. This article argues that HSS journals in non-Western societies including China need to strike a balance between their contemporary bid for international visibility and long-term contribution to multiple perspectives in global HSS research.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/286643
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 3.6
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.065
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dc.contributor.authorLi, M-
dc.contributor.authorYang, R-
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-04T13:28:28Z-
dc.date.available2020-09-04T13:28:28Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationHigher Education, 2020, v. 80 n. 2, p. 237-254-
dc.identifier.issn0018-1560-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/286643-
dc.description.abstractSince the 2000s, China has been fast establishing English-language academic journals to further internationalize research. This article delineates a national scenario of such journals in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) and explores their efforts and predicaments in bringing China’s HSS research to the world. Based on first-hand data collected empirically through interviews and documents, it shows that HSS English-language journals in China attempt to challenge yet are conditioned at the same time by the imbalanced international knowledge structure. While still at a preliminary stage of development in terms of quantity and quality, the journals have already been confronted with major challenges including English language hurdles, unfavorable position in research evaluation systems, unfamiliarity with standards of international academic writing and publishing, and tensions between international ambition and local commitment. This article argues that HSS journals in non-Western societies including China need to strike a balance between their contemporary bid for international visibility and long-term contribution to multiple perspectives in global HSS research.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlands. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0018-1560-
dc.relation.ispartofHigher Education-
dc.rightsThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Higher Education. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00476-3-
dc.subjectEnglish-language scholarly journals-
dc.subjectHumanities-
dc.subjectSocial sciences-
dc.subjectChina-
dc.subjectAcademic dependency-
dc.subjectGlobal knowledge flows-
dc.titleEnduring Hardships in Global Knowledge Asymmetries: A National Scenario of China’s English-language Academic Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailYang, R: yangrui@hkucc.hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityYang, R=rp00980-
dc.description.naturepostprint-
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10734-019-00476-3-
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dc.identifier.hkuros313968-
dc.identifier.volume80-
dc.identifier.issue2-
dc.identifier.spage237-
dc.identifier.epage254-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000498924600001-
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands-
dc.identifier.issnl0018-1560-

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