Analysis And Evaluation Of The National Social Science Fund Of China Based On Bibliometrics

National Social Science Fund is the highest level of national social science research fund; its research direction is generally the greatest concerns of our party and state as well as the area of the corresponding discipline. It represents research frontiers and research hotspots of a subject. As time goes on, our country devoted an increasing amount of resources for National Social Science Fund. To explore National Social Science Fund investment playing a role or not, world history as a discipline is chosen to analyze its current situation. World History is a basic subject. It takes an important part in philosophy and the humanities. It is promoted to the nation’s key programs in 2013. The promotion represents our party and state as well as the area of the corresponding discipline takes more attention to world history. Therefore, it is very important to study on the development status of World History. According to the basic information of World History National Social Science Fund and World History National Social Science Fund’s paper data, the current situation and development trend of World History National Social Science Fund is studied and analyzed. At the same time, with the help of the CiteSpace, as an information analysis tool, research frontiers and research hotspots as well as co-authors of World History National Social Science Fund are analyzed. According to the field of World History National Social Science Fund, the entire field of world history is learned and authors, publishers, project undertaking organizations, research frontiers and research hotspots of world history is learned. Meanwhile, it is helpful for scholars in the field of world history studying.The analysis on World History National Social Science Fund Project focuses on the analysis of the project title’s word length, terms length and the high frequency words. Through the analysis of the project title’s word length, terms length and the high frequency words, research hotspots of World History National Social Science Fund is known. In the analysis of the academic achievements of World History National Social Science Fund, the analysis focuses on the key words and high cited papers of World History National Social Science Fund to understand the research hotspots of World History National Social Science Fund papers. At the same time, using knowledge mapping tools to deepen the research on research frontiers and research hotspots, it explores World History National Social Science Fund from the two directions of clustering and timing knowledge map.We can learn research hotspots from titles of all projects in a field. Then, we can analyze the main research direction of the project from the title of a project. So comparative analysis the similarity between the paper’s and the funded project’s title can analyze whether the paper and the funded project research direction is consistent. The similarity of the paper’s and the funded project’s title is calculated to find the relationship between the paper and the funded project.