The Plural and International Standard for the Evaluation of Humanities and Social Sciences
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    The rapid development of contemporary Chinese economy has enabled China to function as a political and economic power in the world. More and more foreigners, especially intellectuals in the West, have become interested in Chinese culture. But unfortunately, the voices of Chinese scholars of humanities and social sciences are so weak on international forum that they are thought to suffer from “aphasia”. Although the author does not agree with this idea, he cannot but recognize the fact that it is no easy to find Chinese scholars’ articles published in international authoritative journals of humanities and social sciences. It is true that the factors of ideology and linguistic and cultural hegemony should be taken into consideration, but we Chinese scholars have not made enough efforts in this aspect. It is certainly demanding to realize the importance of the internationalization of China’s humanities and social sciences. To the author, it is necessary to adopt a plural standard to evaluate the research in humanities and social sciences, that is, apart from articles listed in SSCI and A&HCI, monographs or edited volumes published by international prestigious presses should also be taken into account. It is not the number of published journal articles but their factual impact that should be more evaluated. At the moment, it is necessary to make the following three efforts to realize the internationalization of China’s humanities and social sciences: (1) To organize excellent scholars to write excellent works to publish in some international prestigious journals and presses; (2) To train a group of high-leveled academic translators so as to translate the best humanities and social sciences works by Chinese scholars into English so that they could be published internationally; (3) To create a number of journals and presses of good international reputation and recommend as many as 100 humanities and social sciences journals to be listed in SSCI or A&HCI.

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王宁.人文社会科学评价的多元化和国际化标准[J].重庆大学学报社会科学版,2009,15(4):83~89

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