This study vividly reveals the state of the Sino-German scientific collaboration with bibliometrics, citation analysis, social network analysis, information visualization, mapping knowledge domains, and other quantitative methods. This study also interprets the development status of Sino-German scientific collaboration. It provides a reference for research methods at state level, as well as opportunity for the improvement of Sino-German scientific collaboration policy. Finally, this study puts forward some suggestions for the development of future scientific collaboration between China and Germany.
