Vol. 5 No. 1 (2022): Pakistan Journal of International Affairs
Articles

A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF CPEC UNDER ONE BELT AND ONE ROAD: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Published 2022-03-23

Abstract

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is China and Pakistan joint project. According to the bibliometric Analysis of CPEC publications indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database, most publications were observed between 2017 and 2019. 1012 authors from 31 countries submitted 459 papers in 324 publications, with an average of 4.514 citations per document. China ranked first in Single Country Publications (SCP=225), Multiple Country Publications (MCP=64), and Pakistan (SCP=42, MCP=13). Ferdinand P and Hong Yu were active authors. Sustainability is the highest productive journal. There was a significant correlation (p<0.0544) between the total number of citations per year and science publications (r=0.4921), number of citations and number of documents per country (r=0.9751), number of citations and Single Country Publications (r=0.8232, p<0.0001), and number of citations and Multiple Country Publications (r= 0.6977, p<0.0001). This study provides an in-depth impression of CPEC, highlighting the research area and contributing countries towards scientific research