A comparative study of the conference papers of mainland China's double first-class universities

This paper analyses the conference papers published by double first-class universities from mainland China between 2006 and 2019. The main findings are as follows: first, the number of conference papers from different double first-class universities varied greatly, with the annual numbers of papers in the China Proceedings of Conferences Full-text Database (CPCD) and in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) fluctuating during this period. Second, most of the top 10 disciplines of the papers in the CPCD and CPCI were in the natural sciences, with only two in the social sciences. The CPCD papers and CPCI papers had some overlap in their disciplinary distributions. Third, the CPCD and CPCI papers differed little in total number, with the number of CPCI papers being slightly higher than the number of CPCD papers. With the introduction of new regulations from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST), there will likely be an increase in the number of Chinese-language conference papers in the future.