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Abstract

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.

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이 논문에서는 학술지 인용 데이터와 웹 링크 데이터를 이용하여 8개 과학기술 분야의 학제적 구조를 파악하고 각 학문분야 간 학제성을 비교하였다. 분석 대상이 되는 학술지와 웹 페이지의 주제적 성격을 파악하기 위해 기존의 과학기술 분류체계를 재구성하여 이용하였다. 이 연구에서 학제성은 여러 학문분야 간 학제적 연결의 측면에서 파악하였으며, 학제성의 정도는 연관 학문분야의 수로 측정한 학제적 다양성과 자기인용률에 의해 평가하였다. 분석 결과 학술지 인용 분석에서는 밝혀내지 못한 새로운 학제적 연결을 웹 링크 분석에 의해 파악하였으며, 이를 통해 웹 링크 분석이 학제성을 연구하는 수단으로서 유용함을 알 수 있었다. 또한 인용 분석과 링크 분석에서 모두 자연과학 분야에 비해 공학 분야의 학제성이 대체로 더 높게 나타났다.

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This study identifies the interdisciplinary structures of 8 scientific disciplines in science and technology using the data from journal citations and web links, and compares the interdisciplinarity among these scientific disciplines. The interdisciplinarity refers to interdisciplinary connections among scientific fields and the degree of interdisciplinarity is measured by the number of associated fields and the rate of self-citation. A re-arranged classification scheme for science and technology was adopted to identify subject categories of journals and web pages. Web link analysis revealed a few additional interdisciplinary connections that were not identified by the journal citation analysis, thus demonstrating that it is useful means of investigating the interdisciplinarity of scientific fields. Besides, in most of the cases the interdisciplinarity of the engineering fields were found greater than that of the fields in natural sciences in both analyses.