Journalism and communication is one of the most popular research directions in the humanities and social sciences and the internationalization of the research results is a major problem. In recent years, concerning China’s journalism and communication studies, the vision, and the scope of it has expanded, but the depth is insufficient and the academic level is not high enough. Some scholars believe that strengthening method training and grasping the international theory research is the key to improving the academic level of China’s journalism and communication studies ( Liao et al., 2014 ). Therefore, it is urgent to establish the international awareness of the research on journalism and communication, to understand and master the research orientation, the research trends and the development trend of the international mainstream academic journals and representative results. However, the wave of big data is coming, mastering and using correctly the empirical research methods to deal with the mass of information is a challenge for the journalism and communication researchers. Science Citation Index Social (SSCI) is generally considered to be an important tool for collecting data from various fields of social science. The number and level of the papers published in the journals included in the SSCI can reflect the degree of internationalization ( Liu & Liu, 2009 ). Journalism and communication science is an important subject of SSCI, which is helpful to promote the development of domestic journalism and communication, and to promote the international progress of the academic achievements and academic journals. Some scholars had carried on the analysis of the study of journalism and communication in China on the basis of SSCI. For example, Li Wu, Huang Pei and other scholars take the research papers of journalism and communication included in the SSCI, A&HCI and CPCI-SSH as the study subject, to dissert on the foreign new media research progress from several perspectives by using mapping knowledge domain ( Li, Huang, & Li, 2013 ; Liu et al. 2013 ; Li, 2013 ). The analysis and discussion undoubtedly have given us great help to understand some part of the present international situation of the research on journalism and communication science. However, there are still shortcomings on the aspects such as the holistic overview of journalism and communication studies, especially the study of the frontier, knowledge base and the whole evolution characteristics, and the effect of journalism and communication research on other disciplines, etc. In view of this, this paper takes research papers published on 74 kinds of journal of journalism and communication studies included in SSCI from 2005 to 2014 as research object. We try to answer the following questions: 1) what kinds of form features do journalism and communication study papers included in SSCI take on? What are the evolution characteristics of them? 2) What major issues do journalism and communication study papers included in SSCI concern? What is the frontier area, the knowledge base and the evolution of the research? 3) What are the implications of these papers on the research field of social science?

The citation of a paper is often used to evaluate the academic influence of that paper. In this paper, to reveal the influence of journalism and communication research on other subjects, we carry out analysis of subject categories on the citation of the research papers included in SSCI. As mentioned above, the total number of journalism and communication research papers included in SSCI cited more than once is 14,389 during 2005-2014 and the total cited number is 122,672. Due to the limitation of the number of samples, we carried out analysis on the 5000 papers which were cited the most. These papers were incited 97,022 times and 50,499 references were cited, except for the 48,068 self-citation. The analysis results are shown in Table 7. Firstly, this shows that the degree of cross-level and mutual influence between journalism and communication studies and Psychology is quite high. Secondly, the research results of journalism and communication studies are also cited in business and economics, public environment occupational health, computer science, linguistics, sociology, library and information science, government law, education and teaching, Health Sciences, engineering, environmental ecology and other social sciences, which shows that the influence of journalism and communication studies is very ex-

tensive and the interdisciplinary study of the journalism and communication is becoming more and more powerful.

Through carrying out literature measurement analysis and descriptive statistical analysis on the journalism and communication research papers included in SSCI during 2005-2014 and combing related literatures, we revealed the basic situation of the research on the International journalism and communication in the last ten years: 1) The European and American countries represented by the United States, Britain and Holland occupy the dominant position leading the international journalism and communication study. While the study of journalism and communication in mainland China is lagging far behind the international level; 2) Business, Media, Internet and Information Science and so on are the most concerned areas of journalism and communication studies. Facebook and Twitter and so on are emerging research areas; 3) Internationally, the research on the journalism and communication shows the characteristic of problem-solving orientated and the micro application based, which pays great attention to the guiding role of the research on the educational practice, and has a relatively clear knowledge accumulation and academic inheritance path; 4) The influence of journalism and communication studies on other subjects is increasing, which shows the interdisciplinary characteristics of social science research from another side.

Through comparative analysis of domestic journalism and communication studies, we find the following phenomena and problems: 1) The international visibility and international level of the domestic journalism and communication studies are relatively low and the number of papers written by the authors from mainland China is only 183 among 14,389 samples. Although it may be related to the factors such as periodical source and language barrier, the key lies in the theory of the research itself is not strong and the depth of the research is not enough. 2) Domestic journalism and communication studies tend to take a more macro perspective and many research papers have been staying at the basic study on the theory of journalism and communication, business knowledge and development model, without reflecting the practical application of journalism and communication. Furthermore, the specific practice of journalism and communication in the business, economic and social livelihood and other areas needs to be strengthened. 3) The achievements of the domestic journalism and communication studies are more simple repetition and show obvious characteristics of knowledge fragmentation. Their theoretical foundation is weak and their effect on the knowledge accumulation and development of the journalism and communication is not obvious. 4) In the 20,647 journalism and communication research papers, only 234 papers were co-authored by Chinese authors and foreign authors, which showed deficiency in international cooperation and exchange. In order to change this situation, the researchers of journalism and communication need to establish the international awareness, to track and learn from the advanced research results and methods, to optimize the main content, structure and discipline distribution, to strengthen international cooperation and academic exchanges, and to strive to improve the international status of domestic journalism and communication studies and academic visibility on the basis of focusing on the specific situation in China.

JingqianTang, (2015) Analysis on the International Situation and Evolution of Research: Quantitative Analysis on the SSCI Theses from 2005 to 2014. Advances in Journalism and Communication,03,100-109. doi: 10.4236/ajc.2015.34011