An analysis of co-authorship of management science in China

Collaboration in scientific study plays an important role in science and humanity. The object of the study is correlate collaboration in China with management science. Based on the Chinese Journals Fulltext Database (CJFD), we conducted a quantitative analysis of the co-authorship rate with the published time, the age group and address sources of the authors. The analytical results indicate that the scholars at the age group of 40 years old are gradually becoming the academic leaders and younger scholars at the age group of 30 years old are the new blood. Chinese cities could be categorized to different grades according to the analytical results of the address sources of the authors. Beijing and Shanghai are the first grade cities, which means that they are the national centers in management science; Xi'an, Wuhan, Nanjing, Tianjin, Hangzhou and Shenyang are the second grade cities, which are the mid-collaboration level cities and the regional centers in management science; the rest of the cities are the third grade cities.