TY - JOUR
T1 - Determinants of institutional excellence in Asian communication research
AU - Feng, Guangchao Charles
N1 - Funding information:
This research is supported in part by the grant of the National Social Science Foundation of China (National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences) (grant number 18BXW082).
Publisher copyright:
© AMIC/WKWSCI-NTU 2020
PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - Asia lags behind North America and Europe in communication research. This paper aims to investigate what factors determine the research excellence of communication schools in Asia. The study relies primarily on bibliometric data from the Web of Science database and uses a conceptual framework that integrates Bourdieu’s capital theory and institutional theory. The author found that social capital is most important and that economic capital is least important to research performance. In addition, cultural capital concerning human capital is crucial, but other forms of cultural capital (regional English proficiency and a school’s research history) lack relevance in explaining research excellence. Moreover, the strategies that stress the interdisciplinarity of the faculty and the formalized institutional form are critical to research performance.
AB - Asia lags behind North America and Europe in communication research. This paper aims to investigate what factors determine the research excellence of communication schools in Asia. The study relies primarily on bibliometric data from the Web of Science database and uses a conceptual framework that integrates Bourdieu’s capital theory and institutional theory. The author found that social capital is most important and that economic capital is least important to research performance. In addition, cultural capital concerning human capital is crucial, but other forms of cultural capital (regional English proficiency and a school’s research history) lack relevance in explaining research excellence. Moreover, the strategies that stress the interdisciplinarity of the faculty and the formalized institutional form are critical to research performance.
KW - Institutionalization
KW - research performance
KW - Asia
KW - communication discipline
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85092755510&doi=10.1080%2f01292986.2020.1833952&partnerID=40&md5=2c741af48a32e25e0dd53d583e6c4e85
U2 - 10.1080/01292986.2020.1833952
DO - 10.1080/01292986.2020.1833952
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0129-2986
VL - 30
SP - 389
EP - 408
JO - Asian Journal of Communication
JF - Asian Journal of Communication
IS - 6
ER -
