https://ojs.acad-pub.com/index.php/JPS <p><em>Journal of Policy and Society</em> (JPS) is a fully open access peer-reviewed journal covering a broad range of topics in Public Policy and Administration. It publishes themed sections that encourage in-depth, critical analyses of specific policy areas. The journal welcomes scholarly papers - both theoretical and empirical - which analyse any aspect of social policy and its relationships with society from different angles. Contributions on teaching and learning issues within the discipline are also welcome.</p> Academic Publishing Pte. Ltd. en-US Journal of Policy and Society 3060-8686 <p>Authors contributing to this journal agree to publish their articles under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>, allowing third parties to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it <span lang="EN-US">for any purpose, even commercially, under the condition that the authors are given credit.</span> With this license, authors hold the copyright.</p><p><img src="https://esp.apacsci.com/public/site/images/reviewer/OIP-C.jpg" alt="" /></p> https://ojs.acad-pub.com/index.php/JPS/article/view/2200 <p>Education plays a key role in the Belt and Road Initiative in the new era. Over the past decade, education has promoted the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative, constructing a multilateral cooperation mechanism led by the government and dominated by universities, facilitating the training of talents in participating countries, fostering cultural exchanges among countries along the Belt and Road, and developing diversified educational assistance models. Meanwhile, certain experiences have been accumulated, such as implementing province-ministry cooperation and leveraging local advantages, maintaining the opening of education to the outside world and building a higher education community, optimizing the governance system and promoting the internationalization of vocational education, as well as emphasizing the integration of strengths and exploring new models of international educational assistance. However, there are also numerous challenges, such as the need to overcome institutional obstacles of higher education systems among countries along the Belt and Road, the need to deepen educational cooperation and exchange between the participating countries, the need to enhance the level of China’s opening of education to the outside world, and the need to further optimize the “going global” strategy of China’s vocational education. Going forward, countries along the Belt and Road should seek to identify the convergence point of common interest and the greatest common divisor in educational cooperation and exchange, thereby contributing to the steady and long-term progress of the Belt and Road Initiative.</p> Jinpeng Niu Copyright (c) 2025 Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 2025-04-01 2025-04-01 3 2 2200 2200 10.59400/jps2200 https://ojs.acad-pub.com/index.php/JPS/article/view/2284 <p>This article presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of South African energy publications during the period 2011 to 2021. Bibliometric analyses have the potential to reveal policy issues that cannot be identified easily through other approaches (e.g., peer review). Several findings are important for policy. It is identified that a substantial number of the energy publications produced by South Africans are proceedings papers. Identification of the main funders leads to the assumption that the National Research Foundation funding for conferences has led to the overproduction of proceedings. The most prolific producers of energy research produce approximately the same number of publications. Energy research is distributed to a large number of universities in the country. It is suggested that this may create diseconomies of scale. Comparisons of the organizational outputs of the South African organizations with international entities identify that the country’s organizations are subcritical. Analysis of the international collaborative patterns of energy identifies that collaboration is very light in comparison to collaborative patterns of all disciplines. It is noted that researchers moved towards renewable technologies even though there is no relevant support from the government. The investigation identifies that bibliometrics is a powerful approach for monitoring and evaluating disciplines within systems of innovation.</p> Anastassios Pouris Copyright (c) 2025 Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 2025-04-08 2025-04-08 3 2 2284 2284 10.59400/jps2284