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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>. Lin Yifu – Top on Academic<br />

Publication List on China Economy<br />

Research<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2007--03--14<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=173884688<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, March 14th, 2007: ―ASIAN-PACIFIC ECONOMIC<br />

LITERATURE‖ recently saw the publication <strong>of</strong> ―Trends in Publications <strong>of</strong> Chinese<br />

Economic Studies: authors, journals and research fields,1991–2003,‖ which<br />

demonstrated Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Lin Yifu <strong>of</strong> <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> ranked the first in the world on<br />

the academic publication list about China Economy Research.<br />

EconLit database, the basic tool for studying Economics, was employed to search all<br />

the documents with ―China‖ and ―China Economy‖ in their titles, key words, and<br />

abstracts from 1991 to 2003 in this research, contributing to carry out the stat.<br />

analysis. EconLit database was established by American Economic Association, with<br />

a rich collection <strong>of</strong> articles, books, reports, dissertations on Economics from 1969 to<br />

present. There were 7138 articles concerning this research in this period, and 3861<br />

were dissertations from academic periodicals, such as American Economic Review,<br />

Foreign Affairs, and World Economy, etc. And these dissertations, which covered<br />

widely, from Economic System, International Economics, Economics History, to<br />

Agriculture and Natural Resources Economics, Labor and Population Economics,<br />

Macro-Economics and Currency Economics, etc., were provided by about 4500<br />

authors, among whom 46 delivered more than 10 dissertations, and Pr<strong>of</strong>. Lin ranked<br />

the first by 35.5.<br />

According to the article, the worldwide study on China rapidly grew with the<br />

development <strong>of</strong> China economy, which <strong>of</strong>fered many new topics for the various<br />

branches <strong>of</strong> Economics – China, the biggest developing country in the world, has<br />

changed into ―world factory‖ out <strong>of</strong> an agriculture-based economy, and the<br />

successful transformation from planned economy to market economy has set China<br />

as an outstanding example in economic reform.<br />

This article, by review and stat. analysis on China economy studies, serves as a<br />

reference for further development in this field.<br />

Edited By : Liu Qin<br />

Translated By : Zhang Huishu<br />

Source : CCER<br />

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