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This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities [grant number: RTI2018-097447 B-I00].

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Russia-Ukraine crisis: China's Belt Road Initiative at the crossroads

Publicated to:Asian Business & Management. 21 (4): 488-496 - 2022-09-01 21(4), DOI: 10.1057/s41291-022-00195-1

Authors: Mendez, Alvaro; Forcadell, Francisco Javier; Horiachko, Kateryna

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ESIC Univ, Madrid, Spain - Author
Fudan Univ, Shanghai, Peoples R China - Author
London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, London, England - Author
Natl Transport Univ, Kiev, Ukraine - Author
Rey Juan Carlos Univ, Dept Management, Madrid, Spain - Author
UBI Business Sch, Brussels, Belgium - Author
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Abstract

China's Belt Road Initiative (BRI) is an ambitious programme to connect Asia with Europe, Africa, and Latin America via transport networks on land and sea in hopes of advancing economic integration, increasing trade, and stimulating growth. Ukraine occupies a strategic location in the BRI, near the intersection of Europe and Asia, rendering it a potential gateway to Europe. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is having a disruptive effect and poses numerous challenges for the Initiative, as it has affected some of the pillars and overall goals of the BRI. As it stands, however, infrastructure connectivity is being set back by three developments: fewer funding options, less international cooperation, and geopolitical shocks. Second, unimpeded trade via the BRI is being affected as the war causes disruptions to global value chains, weakens free trade, and sharpens food and energy insecurity. But where there are risks, there are also potential favourable circumstances for the BRI, including opportunities for China to get involved in the reconstruction of a war-ravaged Ukraine.

Keywords
Belt and road initiative (bri)Belt and road initiative (bri)ChinaGeopoliticsInfrastructureRussiaUkraineWar

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Asian Business & Management due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Political Science and International Relations. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 1.53, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 12.92 (source consulted: Dimensions May 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-05-22, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 10
  • Scopus: 19
  • OpenCitations: 11
Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-05-22:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 41.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 40 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 7.55.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 12 (Altmetric).
Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Belgium; China; Ukraine; United Kingdom.