초록

이 연구는 국내 연구자의 학술지 논문 발표 자료를 활용하여 학문분야간 학술지 공유도를 산출하고, 이로부터 국내 학문분야의 구조를 나타내는 네트워크를 생성하였다. 생성된 패스파인더 네트워크는 ‘생물학’분야를 핵심으로 하는 생명과학 분야가 중앙을 차지하고 있었으며, 인문학과 의약학, 공학에 속한 학문끼리는 학문간 연계가 매우 강하게 나타났다. 가중 네트워크로부터 각 학문분야의 중심성과 학제성을 파악하기 위해서 엔트로피 공식과 가중 네트워크 중심성 척도를 적용한 결과 전역 중심 학문, 지역 중심 학문, 전역 연계 학문, 기타 일반 학문의 네 가지 유형을 식별할 수 있었다. 가중 네트워크를 이진 네트워크로 변환한 패스파인더 네트워크에서는 다수의 약한 링크가 모인 데이트 허브가 드러나지 않았으나, 가중 네트워크에서의 중심성 지수인 삼각매개중심성의 측정 범위를 지역에서부터 전역까지 달리하며 측정한 결과로부터 ‘인지과학’분야와 같은 학제성이 높은 데이트 허브를 식별할 수 있었다.

Abstract

The main purposes of this study are to construct a Korean science network from journal contributions data of Korean researchers, and to analyze the structure and characteristics of the network. First of all, the association matrix of 140 scholarly domains are calculated based on the number of contributions in common journals, and then the Pathfinder network algorithm is applied to those matrix. The resulting network has several hubs such as ‘Biology’, ‘Korean Language & Linguistics’, ‘Physics’, etc. The entropy formula and several centrality measures for the weighted networks are adopted to identify the centralities and interdisciplinarity of each scholarly domain. In particular, the date hubs, which have several weak links, are successively distinguished by local and global triangle betweenness centrality measures.

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국가경쟁력의 근간은 대학경쟁력이고 대학경쟁력은 학술·연구·정보경쟁력에서 나온다고 할 수 있다. IMD는 국가경쟁력에서 2위를 한 싱가포르가 대학경쟁력에서 1위를 한 것으로 보고하였으며, 국가경쟁력은 대학경쟁력에서 나온다고 평가한 바 있다. 그러나 우리나라에서는 국가 지식인프라 구축사업이 국가 단위의 종합적 계획없이 진행되고, 지식정보자원의 총량 분석없이 산발적·경쟁적으로 진행된 관계로 일반적인 정보원구축에 중복 투자가 되는 반면에 수집이 어렵고 많이 활용되지는 않으나 역사적·학술적·문화적 가치가 있는 정보원은 오히려 소외되는 현상이 발생했다. 이에 본 연구에서는 국가 자산인 국가지식정보자원 중 학술정보자원만이라도 총체적으로 관리하고 학술자원에 대한 총량분석을 기반으로 한 예산 투자 및 정보화사업과제가 발굴될 수 있도록 하기 위해 학술자원관리시스템 구축을 제안하고자 한다. 즉, 학술자원의 효율적 연계, 보급, 활용을 위해서는 관리체계가 필요하다고 보고, 이를 효과적으로 추진하기 위해 지식기반시대에 적합한 국가단위학술자원관리 체제 구축을 제안하고자 한다.

Abstract

National competence is based on the quality of university education, which is determined by the competitiveness of academia, research and information. IMD reported that Singapore, #2 country in national competence index, topped in quality of university education. Meanwhile Korea's current national knowledge infrastructure project lacks comprehensive coordination at a governmental level and has been conducted in a rather sporadic manner, without any consideration on the overall analysis of knowledge information resources. Consequently, a disproportionate amount of attention was devoted to collecting general information resources, while neglecting rare, hard-to-collect sources with historic, academic, and/or cultural values. This study proposes to build an academic resource management system to fully supervise academic resources at least, among national knowledge information resources which is a national asset, and also to allocate budget and cultivate new information building projects based on overall analysis on academic resources. In other words, there is a need for a management system to implement efficient linkage, distribution and utilization of academic resources and, to that end, we need to build an academic resource management system at a national level, maximizing the benefits from the knowledge society that we live in.

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In this study, we investigated the information users' needs and information seeking behavior in the field of science and technology. We found that the science and technology researchers most frequently needed information while conducting the research & development related tasks and drafting research papers. The researchers attributed the main sources of research ideas to be the communication among colleagues and the literature review. The researchers's most preferred information sources were digital libraries, web search engines, and academic information portal. In conclusion, the science and technology researchers regarded the online use of electronic materials as the primary source of information. We hope that this investigation reported herein to be the foundation for developing user-centered information services for the science and technology discipline.

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Authoritative as well as objective information on ranking or dominant research areas of academic departments/schools in a certain discipline is essential for the graduate school applicants. In this study, we performed an informetric analysis to identify dominant research areas in the top 10 U.S. LIS schools. We used two different datasets of research productivity and research interests of the LIS faculty. The correspondence analysis method was employed to graphically display the association between research areas and the LIS schools. We found that the research productivity data collected from SSCI database generated a very informative map presenting which research areas were dominant in which LIS schools. We also found that for the two most productive subject areas in LIS over the past 10-year period, the proportion of research articles in information retrieval decreased to a great extent in the recent 5-year period, whereas that of information seeking behavior showed an almost same degree of increase.