Analyzing Characteristics of ESI Discipline Distribution in China, U.S. and U.K. with Sub-Disciplines and Text Contents
Zhang Wanshu1,Yao Haitao2,Wang Xuefeng1()
1School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China 2School of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau 999078, China
[Objective] This paper examines the highly cited papers from ESI, aiming to identify the characteristics of their discipline distributions in China, the United States and the United Kingdom. [Methods] First, we merged the sub-disciplines and text contents based on the general framework of biodiversity. Then, we constructed three indicators of discipline variety, discipline balance and discipline disparity. Finally, we analyzed the changing of indicators over a five-year-period. [Results] There is a gap between China and the United States or the United Kingdom in the diversity of Social Sciences and Biomedical Sciences, in the balance of Engineering, Mathematics, as well as Environment & Ecology, and in the disparity of Computer Sciences, Geosciences, Botanic and Animal Sciences. However, some indicators showed an upward trend. [Limitations] More research is needed to examine the threshold of discipline coverages, as well as the contribution differences due to the order of authors’ nationalities. [Conclusions] Our study finds the differences between China, the United States or the United Kingdom in the distribution of research disciplines, which benefits discipline evaluation and future developments.
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Zhang Wanshu, Yao Haitao, Wang Xuefeng. Analyzing Characteristics of ESI Discipline Distribution in China, U.S. and U.K. with Sub-Disciplines and Text Contents. Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery, 2022, 6(9): 14-26.
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