Russia’s Demographic Problems in the Mirror of Chinese Academic Literature
Research Article
Acknowledgments
The reported study was funded by Southeast University, Project No. 2242023R40023 and RF1028623192, as well as by Jiangsu Social Sciences Foundation, Project No. 24GCB004
How to Cite
Zhang L., Wang J. Russia’s Demographic Problems in the Mirror of Chinese Academic Literature. DEMIS. Demographic Research. 2025. Vol. 5. No. 2. P. 102-119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/demis.2025.5.2.7 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The analysis of demographic problems is relevant both for understanding the internal situation in the country and for implementing international cooperation in the field of demographic and migration policy. Russia is a long-term strategic partner of China, and the topic of its demographic development attracts the attention of a wide range of Chinese scientists. The article is devoted to the analysis of the main research directions of demographic problems of Russia in the Chinese scientific literature using the CiteSpace6.3 application. The source material for the analysis is 284 articles published between 1994 and 2024 in the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database. The purpose of the study is to identify structural and temporal patterns and trends in the Chinese scientific literature devoted to the study of demographic problems in Russia. It has been established that in the evolution of scientific research by scientists from China devoted to this topic, three stages of development can be distinguished: the initial stage (1994-2014), the transitional stage (2015–2019) and the modern stage (2020–2024). In addition, several influential Chinese scientists are working in the field of demographic situation research in Russia, however, the level of Their international cooperation remains limited. An ana-lysis of the keywords used in publications on this issue shows that the attention of Chinese researchers is most often attracted by: “low birth rate”,” high mortality”, “population aging”, “brain drain” and “Chinese migration”. Our results open prospects for further comparative analysis of the scientific literature on demographic challenges in Russia and China, which is of great importance not only for scientific, but also for practical work on solving these problems in both countries.
Keywords:
demography, demographic problems, migration issues, CiteSpace, visualized map of scientific knowledge, bibliometric
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Article
Received: 05.02.2025
Accepted: 30.06.2025
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Zhang, L., & Wang, J. (2025). Russia’s Demographic Problems in the Mirror of Chinese Academic Literature. DEMIS. Demographic Research, 5(2), 102-119. https://doi.org/10.19181/demis.2025.5.2.7
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