초록

Abstract

Physicians have information needs related to academic research and clinical practice but encounter difficulties seeking appropriate medical resources and information. The goal of this study is to develop a search system to support Korean physicians’ information needs. To access sources to meet the identified need, in-depth interviews were conducted, and MediSearching, a new search system, was developed accordingly. To verify its usefulness and to obtain users’ suggestions, interviews were conducted and feedback was solicited via collected test searches. The initial set of interviews indicated that physicians’ information needs and search behaviors differed by type of hospital and clinical department. Physicians in university hospitals with a greater need for research materials searched for academic articles, whereas physicians in specialty hospitals or primary care clinics with a stronger need for materials related to clinical practice asked their colleagues for information. Consequently, MediSearching was designed to satisfy both groups’ needs, and the test search provided useful search results compared with existing services. Korean physicians have previously had to repeat their search process on separate sites that provide different services according to type of information and search method. MediSearching may reduce this inconvenience and add documents in various formats and languages.

초록

본 연구는 계량정보학적 분석을 통해 국내 재난 관련 연구의 동향을 파악하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 KCI 데이터베이스를 검색하여 2002년부터 2016년 사이에 출간된 재난 관련 학술지 논문 772편을 분석하였다. 논문들이 발표된 학문분야의 프로파일링 분석과 저널 프로파일링 분석 및 키워드 동시출현분석을 실시하였다. 분석 결과, 국내 재난 관련 연구의 수는 지속적으로 증가하고 있으며 특히 2014년 세월호 사건 이후에 재난 연구의 수가 급증하였다. 재난 연구의 주요 학문영역은 재난관리 정책을 제시하는 정책학/행정학 영역, 관련 기술을 개발하는 ‘공학’ 영역, 지리정보시스템과 통신기술을 연구하는 ‘GIS/통신’ 영역, 재난을 정신건강학 혹은 인문사회학적 측면에서 연구하는 ‘의학/인문사회과학’ 영역으로 확인되었다. 시기별로 살펴보면, 2014년 이후에는 행정학과 정책학 분야의 비중이 감소한 반면에 법학, 의학, 신문방송학 등의 다양한 학문 분야에서 재난 관련 연구가 활발해졌다.

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the research trends of disaster in Korea through a bibliometric analysis. To do that, it analyzed 772 scholarly articles published from 2002 to 2016, retrieved from KCI (Korean Citation Index) database. For analysis, discipline profiling analysis, journal profiling analysis, and co-word analysis methods were used. The study found that the number of scholarly articles on disaster has increased, especially after Sewol ferry disaster occurred in 2004. The major discipline areas were identified as ‘policy sciences/public administration’ area, ‘engineering’ area, ‘GIS/telecommunication’ area, and ‘medical/humanities/social sciences’ area. In terms of time series, the proportion of scholarly articles published in ‘policy sciences/public administration’ area has decreased since 2014 and at the same time, discipline areas have been diversified including law, medical, and journalism.