Table 4 Top 20 high-frequency keywords in articles published in WCJs by Chinese scholars (left) and world scholars (right).

From: “Bringing in” and “Going abroad”: A bibliometric evaluation of the internationalization of archaeology in Mainland China

Keywords in articles published by Chinese scholars

Number of occurrences

Keywords in articles published by world scholars

Number of occurrences

East Asia

216

Archaeological site

1790

Archaeological site

210

Evolution

1375

Climate change

199

Origin(s)

1276

Origin(s)

190

History

1192

Northern China

171

Age

928

Agriculture

144

Site

891

North China

142

Climate

632

Evolution

140

Identification

626

Late Pleistocene

137

Patterns

621

Site

137

Record

609

China

133

Climate change

562

Bronze age

128

Holocene

558

Domestication

127

Calibration

554

Environmental change

120

Europe

540

Human activity

115

Late Pleistocene

521

Southern China

113

Ancient DNA

517

Modern humans

104

Diversity

497

Tibetan plateau

97

Vegetation

497

Ancient DNA

96

Population

494

History

93

Bone

485