A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on the Naxi Dongba Script in Recent Years
This 2017 bibliometric study analyzes 308 Chinese research papers on the Naxi Dongba script (a pictographic writing system used by Dongba priests in Yunnan, China), drawn from CNKI through the end of 2016 out of 807 initially retrieved. It tabulates the literature by publication year (sharp growth after 2000), document type (journal articles, theses, conference papers), leading authors (Yu Suisheng and Wang Yuanlu foremost), and leading institutions (Southwest University, East China Normal University, Yunnan University, among others). It identifies five research directions: character-form/structure studies (largest share, 25%), phonology, glossing and phraseology, historical origins, and applications in other disciplines like design and education. It argues research is regionally concentrated and dominated by a small circle of scholars, limiting breakthroughs, and highlights new trends (broader source materials, applied-document collection, sub-branch scripts, deeper theory, shared databases), calling for 'Dongba/Naxi graphology' as a formal discipline.
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