Table 2.
The descriptive statistics of the control variables
| Variables | N | Mean | SD | Min | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current-year citations (per) | 703 | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| Second-year citations (per) | 703 | 0.72 | 0.72 | 0.02 | 7.12 |
| The number of authors | 703 | 1.82 | 0.38 | 1.12 | 3.51 |
| The number of funds | 703 | 0.57 | 0.56 | 0.00 | 2.10 |
| The number of keywords | 703 | 3.92 | 0.39 | 3.00 | 5.94 |
| The number of references | 703 | 14.44 | 9.17 | 0.00 | 42.14 |
| The number of pages | 703 | 8.16 | 3.66 | 3.07 | 23.71 |
| The started year of publication | 703 | 1979.95 | 10.08 | 1955.00 | 1998.00 |
| The quantity of papers | 703 | 160.46 | 68.58 | 47.00 | 449.00 |
| The journals’ rankings of CSSCI | 666 | 25.12 | 16.89 | 1.00 | 68.00 |
| Current-year citations (per, 2001) | 37 | 0.08 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.60 |
| Current-year citations (per, 2005) | 37 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.01 | 0.58 |
| Current-year citations (per, 2010) | 37 | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.02 | 0.63 |
| Current-year citations (per, 2015) | 37 | 0.15 | 0.11 | 0.03 | 0.60 |
| Second-year citations (per, 2001) | 37 | 0.42 | 0.50 | 0.05 | 3.05 |
| Second-year citations (per, 2005) | 37 | 0.52 | 0.54 | 0.13 | 3.27 |
| Second-year citations (per, 2010) | 37 | 0.74 | 0.64 | 0.22 | 3.94 |
| Second-year citations (per, 2015) | 37 | 1.05 | 0.73 | 0.29 | 3.64 |
The annual statistics of the papers published with the 37 journals from 2001 to 2019 were reported. The CSSCI ranking of the 2017–2018 Journals has been greatly questioned, which was suspended from then on