Assessing the sustainable development of a national research ecosystem: A generative AI-based evaluation of empirical educational research in China (2004–2023)

Sen Wang; Yiming Wang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0341620

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Assessing the sustainable development of a national research ecosystem: A generative AI-based evaluation of empirical educational research in China (2004–2023)

Sen Wang,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Journal Center, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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Yiming Wang

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Wang.Yiming@mayo.edu

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3291-083X

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Assessing the sustainable development of a national research ecosystem: A generative AI-based evaluation of empirical educational research in China (2004–2023)

Sen Wang,
Yiming Wang

Published: January 28, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341620

About the Authors

Sen Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Journal Center, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Yiming Wang

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Wang.Yiming@mayo.edu

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3291-083X

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

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