Abstract: University humanities and social science award of the ministry of education, as the “indicator” of the development of humanities and social science, has important social evaluation function and the award data of the first five confirm the development and change of university humanities and social science in the past three decedes. The statistics of the previous university humanities and social science awards shows that the traditional preponderant disciplines gradually become weaker and the pattern of new core disciplines is tending to form, that award-winning achievements highly gather in research universities, local universities stand out and the development with the characteristics of variation is becoming the orientation, that university humanities and social science award leads scholars to consciously make academic high-quality goods and humanities and social science award mechanism needs immediate improvement and that there is a larger space for multidisciplinary research and interdisciplinary research is one of the important development trends in the future.

摘要： 教育部高校人文社科奖作为人文社会科学发展的“指示器”，具有重要的社会评价功能，第一至五届评奖结果见证了30年来高校人文社会科学研究的变化和发展趋势。历届高校人文社科奖统计表明：传统优势学科逐渐式微，新的主干学科格局正趋于形成；获奖成果高度聚集在研究型大学，地方高校异军突起，差异化特色发展渐成取向；引领学者自觉打造学术精品，亟待完善人文社会科学奖励机制；多学科综合研究尚有较大发展空间，跨学科研究是未来发展的一个重要趋向。