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Abstract

Even though the overall scholarly community has recognized a dramatic growth and changes in the Information Science research in Korea over the last few decades, there are still only few studies that have identified the changes in terms of long-term and dynamic point of view. We have analyzed 1,007 IS-research articles from leading Korean journals in KCI (Korea Citation Index), published between 2000 and 2011. To discern the trendline of changes in research interests over time, we conducted a time-series analysis by developing grounded subject scheme from the article set and checking the growth rate of the number of published articles and title keywords. A comparative analysis was also conducted by constructing and comparing co-word maps over time to discover visible changes in research topics over this 12-year period of the IS-research in Korea. As a result, we identified some developments and transformations in major subject areas and knowledge structure of the IS-research in Korea over time. The major trend we discovered is that IS-studies over the 12-year period evolved from system-oriented research to library-application research. The changes are especially observed in knowledge management, Web-based system evaluation, and information retrieval areas. When compared to the results of other studies, the result of our study may serve as an evidence of the localization of Korean IS-studies in the first decade of the 21st century.

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본 연구는 우리나라 대표적인 정보학분야 학회지인 『정보관리학회지』에 25년 동안에 발표된 학술논문을 대상으로 동향분석을 시도하여 각 시기별 우리나라 정보학분야의 학문적 구조와 그 변화를 파악하였다. 이를 위하여 먼저 25년을 1984-1994, 1995-2002, 2003-2009로 나눈 다음, 각 기간별 『정보관리학회지』에 실린 학술논문의 주제를 분석한 후 각 논문의 주제분포, 주제영역별 논문의 증감, 주제영역별 연도 분포를 살펴보았다. 또한 논문의 표제어를 이용하여 기간별 정보학의 지적 구조를 생성하였고 세 개의 지적 구조를 비교하여 정보학 연구의 변화를 분석하였다. 그 결과 『정보관리학회지』 연구의 주요 대주제 영역은 ‘정보서비스’, ‘정보조직’ 그리고 ‘정보시스템’이며 소주제 영역은 도서관서비스, 이용자연구, 자동문헌처리, 도서관통합시스템, 시소러스/온톨로지, 디지털도서관인 것으로 나타났다. 또한 표제어의 지적 구조를 분석한 결과, 정보학의 핵심영역은 여전히 정보검색이지만 각종 도서관이나 시스템에 활용된 정보기술 기법이나 서비스 평가에 대한 연구가 점점 늘어나고 이에 대한 주제영역이 확장되고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

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The aims of this study were to provide a global overview of research trends in information science and to trace its changes in the main research topics over time using trends analysis. The study examined the topics of research articles published in Journal of Korean Society for Information Management between 1984 and 2009. Rather than taking a single snapshot of a given point in time, this study attempted to present a series of such pictures in order to identify trends over time. The fairly arbitrary decision was taken to divide the period under consideration into three ‘publication windows’: 1984-1994, 1995-2002, 2003-2009. The study revealed that the most productive areas were ‘Information Service’, followed by ‘Information Organization’, and ‘Information System’. The most productive sub-areas were ‘Library Service’, ‘User Study’, ‘Automatic Document Analysis’, ‘ILS’, ‘Thesaurus/Ontology’, and ‘Digital Library’. From the comparisons of intellectual structures of title keywords, the key research area in the field of Information Science was ‘Information Retrieval’. The studies of IT applications and service system evaluation have been expanded.