China News Service, Beijing, August 11 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The latest "Evaluation of World-Class Science and Technology Societies (2020)" completed by the Chinese research team shows that there is still a big gap between Chinese science and technology societies and top societies. At present, only the Chinese Medical Association, The four societies of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, the Chinese Electronics Society and the Chinese Chemical Society are among the five-star societies, and 28 societies such as the Chinese Aeronautical Society and the Chinese Mechanics Society are four-star societies.
"Evaluation of World-Class Science and Technology Societies (2020)" jointly completed by the research team of the Chinese Society for Science and Technology Policy Research and the Performance Management Research Center of Xi’an Jiaotong University, the 22nd China Association for Science and Technology Annual Meeting held in Beijing recently Officially released at the Development and Governance Forum.
"Evaluation of World-Class Science and Technology Societies (2020)" selected 1065 science and technology societies as evaluation samples based on the standards of internationalization, transparency, comparability and data availability, and collected nearly 200,000 pieces of information for quantitative processing and comprehensive evaluation, forming an organization An indicator system consisting of four first-level indicators of strength, cohesion, leadership, and influence, and corresponding 10 second-level indicators and 22 third-level indicators, the research has drawn the following five conclusions:
——The global science and technology community is booming, and the Matthew effect of regional distribution is still significant. The regional imbalance in the distribution of first-class scientific and technological societies is prominent. The American scientific and technological societies not only account for a large proportion, but also have a more obvious advantage among the top societies. They are in an absolute "monopoly" position; the British scientific and technological societies account for more than 10 star-level societies. %, a stable gradient ecology has been formed; although Chinese science and technology societies have occupied a place, they still have a large gap with top societies, especially among the five-star science and technology societies, both American and British societies are clearly higher than Chinese societies.
——The size of the association has a more prominent influence on the top technology associations. The scale of organization has different influences on different levels of scientific and technological societies. The advantage of scale is more prominent among the top societies. The average score of large-scale five-star societies is significantly higher than that of small and medium-sized societies; medium-sized societies occupy more of the four-star and above scientific and technological societies. A large proportion is the main component of first-class scientific and technological societies; small-scale societies also have good development potential in the networked and information age, accounting for more than 1/3 of the top 200.
—— The development of disciplines obviously promotes the enhancement of the strength of science and technology associations. Under the background of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, quantum information technology and biotechnology, the discipline of engineering technology has developed rapidly. The proportion of five-star scientific and technological associations in this field is significantly higher than that of other disciplines, three-star and four-star The proportion of outstanding clubs in the medical sciences is also higher than the average; the proportion of medical sciences clubs with four stars and above is the same as the world average, and the level distribution is more balanced; the five-star clubs of basic sciences and social sciences are close to the average, but the proportion of four stars is low The proportion of three-star and above associations in agricultural sciences is lower than the average level, and the overall level of associations needs to be improved.
——System advantages help the development of Chinese science and technology associations. China's four-star or above science and technology associations have performed well in some indicators. The socialist core values have strengthened the cohesion between science and technology associations, realized value recognition and promoted common development; the management system of Chinese characteristic associations promoted the concentration of knowledge resources and better use of knowledge Leading role; the multi-level science popularization work system from the state to the local level makes it unique in terms of social influence.
-The shortcomings of the development of Chinese science and technology societies are obvious. The first is that large-scale societies have not yet become stronger, and the proportion of top-level societies is small. Only 2% of the participating societies in China are in the forefront of the world, and 15% are in the second echelon. The second is that small societies lack characteristics. Indicator performance that highlights advantages; third, the development of disciplines is extremely uneven, and domestic science and technology associations have prominent advantages in the field of engineering and technology, but there are obvious shortcomings in the interdisciplinary field of social sciences compared with the world average; fourth, the overall degree of internationalization is relatively weak. International cooperation is still dominated by exchanges and visits, with limited substantive activities. (Finish)