Bibliometric and Visualized Analysis of the Research on Nüshu in China

DOI

10.2991/sschd-18.2019.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Nüshu, Female, Cultural, Heritage, Cite Space.

Abstract

Nüshu, also known as “female scripts”, is a unique gender specific literal symbol system in the world, which covers a series of comprehensive local cultural phenomenon with distinct female characteristics. This paper concerns the bibliometric and visualized analysis of the research on Nüshu in China, based on the database of China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and with the help of the mapping software Cite Space. The analysis results show that: i) Nüshu research goes through three stages, namely academic introductory stage (1987-1999), discipline foundation stage (2000-2007) and discipline growing stage (2008-2017); ii) “Chinese language and characters” and “basic research in social science” still take the dominant position on Nüshu research. Nevertheless, the trend of Nüshu research topic presents a transformation from Nüshu “scripts” to Nüshu “culture”, to “females” and to other diversified applied subjects.; iii) Institutions and authors of Nüshu research are mainly concentrated in several universities in Hunan and Hubei province of southern China, which more engaged in regional but less engaged in the cross-region and interdisciplinary cooperation. For this, the author calls for constructing a theoretical discipline system and methods that guide the Nüshu research in various disciplines, and promoting the interdisciplinary integration and collaborative innovation.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ya-Ping TIAN
AU  - Pei-Lin LIU
AU  - Yi-Ning XIE
AU  - Yi-Meng ZHOU
AU  - Hao CHANG
AU  - Jing CHEN
PY  - 2019/01
DA  - 2019/01
TI  - Bibliometric and Visualized Analysis of the Research on Nüshu in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 230
EP  - 236
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/sschd-18.2019.40
DO  - 10.2991/sschd-18.2019.40
ID  - TIAN2019/01
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