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ABSTRACT
The main aim of the article is to investigate the spatial structure of international research on post-socialist cities. The analysis is based on data derived from the Scopus database (2001–2018) and includes issues such as the publication dynamics, structure of authors (with regard to cities and countries), main publishing ‘channels’, as well as networks in ‘producing’ knowledge on post-socialist cities. The analyses conducted primarily lead to a general conclusion about the high spatial concentration of these studies in the scientific centres of Central and Eastern Europe. On a more detailed dimension, however, analyses show a significant diversity in both the publication channels used by researchers and the co-citation networks. On this basis, a conclusion is made about the occurrence of the problem of introversions in research on post-socialist cities on an international scale, which is a broader concept than the Anglo-American dominance discussed for at least two decades.
The main aim of the article is to investigate the spatial structure of international research on post-socialist cities. The analysis is based on data derived from the Scopus database (2001–2018) and includes issues such as the publication dynamics, structure of authors (with regard to cities and countries), main publishing ‘channels’, as well as networks in ‘producing’ knowledge on post-socialist cities. The analyses conducted primarily lead to a general conclusion about the high spatial concentration of these studies in the scientific centres of Central and Eastern Europe. On a more detailed dimension, however, analyses show a significant diversity in both the publication channels used by researchers and the co-citation networks. On this basis, a conclusion is made about the occurrence of the problem of introversions in research on post-socialist cities on an international scale, which is a broader concept than the Anglo-American dominance discussed for at least two decades.
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Aalbers, M.B. & Rossi, U. (2009) Anglo-American/Anglophone hegemony, [in:] R. Kitchin, N. Thrift, eds., International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier, New York, 1, 116–121.
Bajerski, A. & Siwek, T. (2012) Bibliometrická analýza české geografie v databázi Scopus, Geografie, 117(1), 52–71 [in Czech].
Bajerski, A. & Przygoński, K. (2018) East-Central European human geographers in English-dominated, Anglophone-based international publishing space, Geographia Polonica, 91(3), 265–280.
Bański, J. & Ferenc, M. (2013) ‘International’ or ‘Anglo-American’ journals of geography?, Geoforum, 45, 285–295.
Bodman, A.R. (2009) Measuring the influentialness of economic geographers during the ‘great half century’: an approach using the h index, Journal of Economic Geography, 10(1), 141–156.
Campbell, F.M. (1990) National bias: a comparison of citation practices by health professionals, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 78(4), 376.
Foster, J., Muellerleile, C., Olds, K. & Peck, J. (2007) Circulating economic geographies: citation patterns and citation behaviour in economic geography, 1982–2006, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32(3), 295–312.
French, R.A. & Hamilton, F.I., eds., (1979) The socialist city: Spatial structure and urban policy, John Wiley & Sons.
Fu, Y. & Zhang, X. (2017) Trajectory of urban sustainability concepts: A 35-year bibliometric analysis, Cities, 60, 113–123.
Garcia-Ramon, M.D. (2003) Globalization and international geography: the questions of languages and scholarly traditions, Progress in Human Geography, 27(1), 1–5.
Garcia-Ramon, M.D. (2004) The spaces of critical geography: an introduction, Geoforum, 5(35), 523–524.
Gentile, M. & Sjöberg, Ö. (2020) Neoliberalism(s) as a Guide to Post Wall Urban Change: Explanation Out of the Blue?, Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 111(2), 149–62.
Grange, R.I. (1999) National bias in citations in urology journals: parochialism or availability?, BJU International, 84(6), 601–603.
Gutiérrez, J. & Lopez-Nieva, P. (2001) Are international journals of human geography really international?, Progress in Human Geography, 25(1), 53–69.
Harzing, A.W. & Alakangas, S. (2016) Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: a longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison, Scientometrics, 106(2), 787–804.
Hirt, S. Ferenčuhová, S. & Tuvikene, T. (2016) Conceptual forum: The ‘post-socialist’ city, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 57(4-5), 497–520.
Horton, F.E. & Reynolds, D.R. (1971) Effects of urban spatial structure on individual behavior, Economic Geography, 47(1), 36–48.
Kamalski, J. & Kirby, A. (2012) Bibliometrics and urban knowledge transfer, Cities, 29, S3–S8.
Kanai, J.M., Grant, R. & Jianu, R. (2018) Cities on and off the map: A bibliometric assessment of urban globalisation research, Urban Studies, 55(12), 2569–2585.
Kong, L. & Qian, J. (2019) Knowledge circulation in urban geography/urban studies, 1990–2010: Testing the discourse of Anglo-American hegemony through publication and citation patterns, Urban Studies, 56(1), 44–80.
Martín-Martín, A., Orduna-Malea, E., Thelwall, M. & López-Cózar, E.D. (2018) Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: A systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories, Journal of Informetrics, 12(4), 1160–1177.
Matthiessen, C.W. & Winkel Schwarz, A. (1999) Scientific centres in Europe: an analysis of research strength and patterns of specialisation based on bibliometric indicators, Urban Studies, 36(3), 453–477.
Matthiessen, C.W., Schwarz, A.W. & Find, S. (2010) World cities of scientific knowledge: Systems, networks and potential dynamics. An analysis based on bibliometric indicators, Urban Studies, 47(9), 1879–1897.
Minca, C. (2000) Venetian geographical praxis, Environment and Planning D, 18(3), 285–289.
Mongeon, P. & Paul-Hus, A. (2016) The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis, Scientometrics, 106(1), 213–228.
Mora, L., Bolici, R. & Deakin, M. (2017) The first two decades of smart-city research: A bibliometric analysis, Journal of Urban Technology, 24(1), 3–27.
Naughton, B. (2017) Is China Socialist?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 31(1), 3–24.
Pu, B. & Qiu, Y. (2016) Emerging trends and new developments on urban resilience: A bibliometric perspective, Current Urban Studies, 4(1), 36–52.
Rodríguez-Pose, A. (2006) Is there an ‘Anglo-American’ domination in human geography? And, is it bad?, Environment and Planning A, 38(4), 603–610.
Simonsen, K. (2004) Differential spaces of critical geography, Geoforum, 35(5), 525–528.
Short, J.R., Boniche, A., Kim, Y. & Li, P.L. (2001) Cultural globalization, global English, and geography journals, The Professional Geographer, 53(1), 1–11.
Stenning, A. & Hörschelmann, K. (2008) History, geography and difference in the post‐socialist world: or, do we still need post‐socialism?, Antipode, 40(2), 312–335.
Wu, F., Geng, Y., Tian, X., Zhong, S., Wu, W., Yu, S. & Xiao, S. (2018) Responding climate change: A bibliometric review on urban environmental governance, Journal of Cleaner Production, 204, 344–354.
Zeng, C., Liu, Y., Liu, Y. & Qiu, L. (2014) Urban sprawl and related problems: Bibliometric analysis and refined analysis from 1991 to 2011, Chinese Geographical Science, 24(2), 245–257.