Overall and by Fields Research Output Evaluation of Chinese Mainland Universities Based on ESI Database

摘要

The research performance of mainland China universities is evaluated in this study from the global perspective. Based on the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database, the main research concern is the academic output in overall fields and the strength in certain fields of top 20 universities ranking by citation. Indicators about the numbers of paper and citation are obtained from ESI to interpret the general academic performance of universities. The other indicators are considered as the population of faculty, the activity index, as well as the relative impact index. The statistical results show that the universities in mainland China in terms of quality and quantity of research output have considerable gap. Meanwhile, a large degree of influence to research concentrated in some specific fields is existed.