ABSTRACT:

Generating new knowledge and inspiring future studies are part of the value of a review. While acknowledging the contribution of the bibliometric analysis published in this journal by Qin et al. to understanding the development of environmental and resource sociology in USA, this commentary discussed the relevance of its claims and the bibliometric method it employed to promoting integrated environment sociology in China. Given the fact that the institutional/disciplinary establishments and self-consciousness of researchers in China differ largely from that in USA, future efforts need focus on the identification of common research units/issues and development of multi/inter/trans-disciplinary research frameworks for studies on environment-society interactions. When it is guided with valid scientific questions aiming to understand the complementarity of different disciplinary knowledge, bibliometric analysis can be powerful for cross-disciplinary communication and cooperation.

Keywords: China environmental sociology, integration of studies, sociology of natural resources

摘要:

产生新的知识并启发未来的研究是学术评论的价值之一。本评论在肯定秦（2019）等人在本刊发表的文献计量分析对理解美国环境与资源社会学发展的贡献的同时，讨论了其主张及其所采用的文献计量方法对促进中国环境社会学发展的意义。鉴于中国的机构/学科设置和研究者的自我意识与美国有很大的不同，未来的努力需要集中在确定共同的研究单元/问题和发展多/跨/跨学科的环境-社会互动研究框架上。当以有效的科学问题为指导，以了解不同学科知识的互补性为目的时，文献计量分析对跨学科的交流与合作是很有帮助的。

关键词：中国环境社会学，环境社会学，研究整合，自然资源社会学

原载于Lei Zhang & Dan Liang (2020): What When it is a Jungle: A Response to Qin et al. (2019), Society & Natural Resources, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2020.

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