The legacy of Chinese higher education reformer Cai Yuanpei in scientometric discourse

the article considers the problems of reforming the professional education system in China, the implementation of which is closely connected with the name of Cai Yuanpei, the Minister of Education of the Republic of China and the first rector of Bejing University. Based on the access to the open-access scientometric databases Google Trends and CNKI (The Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure), the authors found that there are significant differences in the assessment of Cai Yuanpei's contribution to the reform of the higher professional education system in foreign countries and in the People's Republic of China. The indicators of differences are the frequency of search queries, the semantic category of which is the name of Cai Yuanpei. It was found that Google Trends from 2004 to the present has recorded a minimal number of queries from foreign countries, while in China there is a persistent interest in the history of the reform of the higher education system of their country, the conceptual foundations of which were laid by Cai Yuanpei.

education, professional education, university, China, Cai Yuanpei, Bejing University, scientometric resources, search query, educational reform