| Abstract The production, transmission and development of academic knowledge depends on the academic exchange. As a key carrier of formal academic exchange, the academic periodical system plays an important role in the modern academic system. Scholars will be paid attention by their peers through publication in periodicals, and the amounts of publications and citations cited by their peers influence their visibility in the academic community. The seemingly independent citing behaviors are not equal and open as what is expected, but is deeply embedded in the structure of the academic system based on the department, which takes on obvious characteristics of power and hierarchy. Selecting 101 scholars in Chinese Mainland from the authors who publish 2 or more essays in Sociological Studies from 2000 to 2010, then using the theory and methods of social network analysis to analyze the inter-citation quantitatively, following results are found, there is a high degree of dispersion between the number of the essays published, the number of the cited and the number of citing others; an obvious boundary lies in the academic exchange network based on the inter-citation among scholars from different level colleges or departments, and some specific academic exchange circles are formed, which improves or impedes the academic exchange between different scholars; the amounts of social capital of scholars and their departments are discrete deeply, which impacts the academic careers of different scholars; as the identity symbol, department’s reputation is connected directly with the academic recognition from other scholars, which is being generalized too much. |
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