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This paper examines the characteristics of the JASIST (Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology) editorial board members and their research areas through author co-citation analysis, and investigates whether the editorial board members’ research areas are related with keywords frequently appeared in the journal’s research articles. In the process, research areas of the central members and those appeared most frequently as keywords will be identified. Research areas of the 36 members on the JASIST editorial board are collected and categorized to compare with the categorization of keywords extracted from 169 research articles published in JASIST, 2013. The result shows that members with higher centrality in the co-citation network are related with research areas that are also dominant in the distribution of article keywords. The areas include information behavior and searching, information retrieval, information system design, and bibliometrics.

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In recent years, the changes in information technology have been so dramatic and the rate of changes has increased so much that information science research rigorously evolves with the passage of time and proliferates in diverging research directions dynamically. The aims of this study are to provide a global overview of research trends in information science and to trace its changes in the main topics over time. The study examined the topics of research articles published in JASIST between 1985 and 2009 and identified its changes during five 5 year periods. The study found that the most productive area has consistently been ‘Information Retrieval’, followed by ‘Informetrics’, ‘Information Use and Users’, ‘Network and Technology’, and ‘Publishing and Services’. Information retrieval is a predominant core area in Information Science covering computer-based handling of multimedia information, employment of new semantic methods from other disciplines, and mass information handling on virtual environments. Currently Informetric studies shift from finding existing phenomena to seeking valuable descriptive results and researchers of information use have concentrated especially on information-seeking aspects, so adding greater sophistication to the relatively simple approach taken in information retrieval.

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이 연구는 국내외 정보학 분야 학회지 동향을 파악하기 위하여 1990년부터 2013년까지 국내 정보관리학회지와 국외 JASIST의 논문 제목과 초록을 대상으로 텍스트 마이닝 기법을 통한 명사, 명사구 동시출현 분석을 수행하였다. 전 기간을 5구간으로 나누고 전체적인 동향을 살펴보기 위해 고빈도 동시출현단어를 분석하였으며, 세부 주제를 파악하기 위해 상위 키워드와 동시에 출현하는 단어를 분석하였다. 마지막으로 과거와 다르게 새로운 키워드가 등장하는 2010년 이후 동향을 중점적으로 네트워크 분석을 수행하였다. 분석 결과 전반적으로 국내의 경우 정보관리학회지는 도서관, 정보 서비스, 정보 이용자, 정보 자료 조직 주제 분야가 많이 차지하고 있었고 JASIST는 정보 검색, 정보 이용자, 웹 관련 정보학, 계량 정보학 중심으로 연구가 진행되었다.

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This paper carried out co-word analysis of noun and noun phrase using text-mining technique in order to grasp the research trends on domestic and international information science articles. It was conducted based on collected titles and articles of the papers published in the Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management (KOSIM) and Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) from 1990 to 2013. By dividing whole period into five publication window, this paper was organized into the following processes: 1) analysis of high frequency co-word pair to examine the overall trends of both information science articles 2) analysis of each word appearing with high frequency keyword to grasp the detailed subject 3) focused network analysis of trend after 2010 when distinctively new keyword appeared. The result of the analysis shows that KOSIM has considerable portion of studies conducted regarding topics such as library, information service, information user and information organization. Whereas, JASIST has focused on studies regarding information retrieval, information user, web information, and bibliometrics.