Quantitative **data** was collected about collaborations of authors between universities in the United States of America and China in the Social Science field from 1974 to October 2017 through the usage of the advanced search option in the Web of Science database. Then the software "Histcite" was used to analyze the data. From 1716 articles in total, a sample of 211 articles was extracted in two different research areas (Tourism and Economics)*1 which was the number of papers linked to each other by citations and references out of the initial sample. The networks were created by linking the references and citations of the papers; Ucinet was used to illustrate the network of the papers' bibliography in two study areas: two groups in economics and one in Tourism. At the first stage of analysis, it was discovered that the majority of first authors working in US universities were actually Chinese by ethnicity, but they worked with partners or coauthors in China, the USA, and a small number of other countries such as South Korea and Spain.