Asian scholarship in selected journals related to Chinese older people

ABSTRACT

This study assessed Asian scholarship in top-ranked social work and international gerontological journals, with a particular focus on Chinese older people. Two of the authors empirically assessed the abstracts and methods of six top-ranked empirical social work journals, and five international core gerontology journals. Studies about Asian scholarship in general were not well represented in the top-ranked core social work journals to any significant extent. However, there were significantly more studies of Asian populations, in general, and Chinese older people in particular, in the core gerontology journals. These gerontology studies were frequently cited in Google Scholar. It appears that social workers often seek out discipline-specific core journals to advance knowledge and research about Asian older people. There is a need for more diverse Asian scholarship and research in the field of social work.

本研究对当前排名靠前的社会工作与国际老年学期刊中的亚洲相关研究进行评估，尤其是关于中国老年人的研究。本文其中两位作者对六本排名靠前社会工作期刊及五本国际核心老年学期刊进行了实证评估。总体上来说，关于亚洲的研究在排名靠前的期刊并没有得到较好的呈现。然而，在核心老年学期刊中，对于亚洲人群特别是中国老年人的研究有显著增加。这些老年学研究经常在谷歌学术搜寻中被引用。研究显示社会工作者倾向寻求特定学科的核心期刊发表亚洲老年人的知识与研究。对此，将来的研究应更为多样化，并增加社会工作领域的研究。

KEYWORDS:

• Asian
• scholarship
• North America
• Chinese
• elderly

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.