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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article
Front. Polit. Sci.
Sec. International Studies
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1527881
Trends and Trajectories in "Global South" Research: A Comparative Study of CNKI and WOS Database Publications
Provisionally accepted
Jiangwei Liu 1,2*
Sity Daud 2- 1 National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
- 2 Faculty of social science and humanities of UKM, Selangor, Malaysia
titled Trends and Trajectories in "Global South" Research: A Comparative Study of CNKI and WOS Database Publications, aligns well with the scope of Frontiers in Political Science, particularly in areas of global political analysis, bibliometric studies, and comparative research methodologies. By examining publication trends and thematic focuses related to the "Global South" across two prominent databases (CNKI and WOS), our study contributes to understanding global knowledge production disparities and the political implications of research visibility and accessibility between the East and West. This work addresses key questions about knowledge flows, representation, and academic influence, which are central to Frontiers in Political Science's mission to explore global political dynamics and scholarly communication.
Keywords: Jiangwei Liu: Writing -original draft, Writing -review & editing. Sity Daud: Writing -review & editing Global South, bibliometric analysis, Content Analysis, Interdisciplinary discussion, collaboration Data availability statement Global South, bibliometric analysis, Content Analysis, Interdisciplinary discussion, collaboration
Received: 14 Nov 2024; Accepted: 26 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Liu and Daud. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Jiangwei Liu, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
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