One Belt And One Road: Literature Analysis

Abstract

In the late 2013 One Belt and One Road (OBOR) was announced in Chinese international political speeches. Thereafter, this significant investment program started and research works were also initiated. We found that first journal publications (in English) appeared in 2016, and thereafter their amounts have increased, especially in 2018. Most of the contributing authors are China based or Chinese scholars living in abroad. Highest citations amounts are for the works published in the first analysis year, however, some differences exist between Scopus and Web of Science citation service amounts. Ten highest cited works account most of the citations on analysed 66 articles. Literature analysis uses tag cloud and network analysis to identify and analyse what are the most used references of these OBOR works. There does not exist any clear key reference among articles, but most used references form a network among analysed research work citations. This further verifies that OBOR program is significantly sized in topics covered, and it is still difficult to define its central or key area.

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“…He added that the Sino-African connections date back to the Han dynasty (206 BC to 220 AD), pursuing through the Tung, Song, and Ming dynasties. The expansion in trade between China and Africa was con rmed [22] and noted that trade between China and Africa stood at US$935 million in 1990, and then accelerated to US$55.5 billion in 2000 [46,47]. Other studies reported that from 2001, Africa's exports to China jump up at an annual rate of over 40% to reach US$28.8 billion in 2006, while in the same year (2006) Africa's imports from China quadrupled to US$26.7 billion [16].…”