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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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최근 다양한 학문 분야는 대내외적 요인으로 인해 학제적 연구 흐름에 영향을 받고 있는 추세이다. 본 연구는 문헌정보학 분야를 대상으로 학제성과 연구 영향력의 상관관계를 분석하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 2011년 JCR(Journal Citation Reports)의 학술지 영향력 지수 상위에 해당하는 문헌정보학 학술지 10종을 선정하여 WoS(Web of Science) 인용색인 DB에서 2006년부터 2010년까지 1,873편의 논문의 참고문헌 데이터를 대상으로 분석하였다. 동시인용 네트워크 분석과 선정된 4가지 학제성 지수를 사용하여 문헌정보학 분야의 학제적 구조를 파악하고 학제성과 연구 영향력 사이의 상관관계를 분석하였다. 분석 결과를 통해 문헌정보학의 학제적 구조를 제시하였으며, 학제성 지수 중 매개중심성은 학술지 영향력 지수(5년) 그리고 논문당 영향도(Article Influence Score)와 통계적으로 유의한 상관관계가 있음이 밝혀졌다.

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As interdisciplinary research has been dominant in various fields, the purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between interdisciplinarity and research impact in the field of Library and Information Science. For a data set, ten journals ranked as the top of 2011 JCR’s in terms of JIF (Journal Impact Factor) were selected. The citation data of 1,873 articles from the ten journals were collected from the WoS during the period from 2006 to 2010. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, as network analysis was conducted to investigate the interdisciplinarity of LIS field, interdisciplinarity indicators, and research impact factors were statistically analyzed. The findings of this study confirmed the interdisciplinary knowledge structure of the LIS field as previous studies identified. More importantly, this study demonstrated that a positive correlation existed between interdisciplinarity represented as betweenness centrality and research impact.

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본 연구는 국내 문헌정보학 분야의 연구동향을 규명하기 위하여 문헌정보학 주요 학술지인, 정보관리학회지, 한국문헌정보학회지, 한국도서관․정보학회지, 한국비블리아학회지의 1970년도부터 2012년도까지 발표 논문 초록을 수집하여 LDA(Latent Dirichlet Allocation)기반의 토픽 모델링 실험을 수행하였다. 그 결과를 종합하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 토픽모델링 실험에서 도출된 연구주제를 문헌정보학 주제분류표와 비교․분석한 결과, ‘정보학’영역의 디지털도서관, 이용연구, 인터넷, 전문가시스템, 계량정보학, 자동화, 정보검색, 정보시스템, ‘도서관 서비스’영역의 정보서비스, 도서관 유형별 서비스, 이용자 교육/정보리터러시, 서비스 평가, ‘문헌정보학 기초’영역의 도서관과 사회, 전문성, ‘자료조직’영역의 분류, 편목, 메타데이터, ‘도서관 경영’영역의 도서관 평가, 장서개발/관리, ‘서지학’영역의 고서지, ‘도서관 체제’영역의 도서관 및 정보정책, ‘출판’영역의 도서/출판, ‘기록관리학’영역의 하위주제 등과 연결할 수 있었다. 또한 가장 많은 연구주제가 발견된 학문영역은 정보학과 도서관서비스로 나타났다. 둘째, 문헌정보학의 주요 연구주제에서 도서관 유형별 서비스 및 평가, 인터넷, 메타데이터의 연구주제는 상승세를 보였으나, 도서, 분류, 편목, 고서지에 관한 연구주제는 하강세를 보였다. 셋째, 학술지를 구분하여 비교․분석한 결과, 정보관리학회지는 도서관에 관한 연구주제보다 정보학에 관한 연구주제가 많이 출현하였고, 한국문헌정보학회지와 한국도서관․정보학회지, 한국비블리아학회지는 도서관에 관한 연구주제가 정보학에 관한 주제보다 많이 나타났다.

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The goal of the present study is to identify the topic trend in the field of library and information science in Korea. To this end, we collected titles and abstracts of the papers published in four major journals such as Journal of the Korean Society for information Management, Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science, Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, and Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science during 1970 and 2012. After that, we applied the well-received topic modeling technique, Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA), to the collected data sets. The research findings of the study are as follows: 1) Comparison of the extracted topics by LDA with the subject headings of library and information science shows that there are several distinct sub-research domains strongly tied with the field. Those include library and society in the domain of “introduction to library and information science,” professionalism, library and information policy in the domain of “library system,” library evaluation in the domain of “library management,” collection development and management, information service in the domain of “library service,” services by library type, user training/information literacy, service evaluation, classification/cataloging/meta-data in the domain of “document organization,” bibliometrics/digital libraries/user study/internet/expert system/information retrieval/information system in the domain of “information science,” antique documents in the domain of “bibliography,” books/publications in the domain of “publication,” and archival study. The results indicate that among these sub-domains, information science and library services are two most focused domains. Second, we observe that there is the growing trend in the research topics such as service and evaluation by library type, internet, and meta-data, but the research topics such as book, classification, and cataloging reveal the declining trend. Third, analysis by journal show that in Journal of the Korean Society for information Management, information science related topics appear more frequently than library science related topics whereas library science related topics are more popular in the other three journals studied in this paper.

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Since information scientists have begun trying to quantify significant research trends in scientific publications, ‘-metrics’ research such as ‘bibliometrics’, ‘scientometrics’, ‘informetrics’, ‘webometrics’, and ‘citation analysis’ have been identified as crucial areas of information science. To illustrate the dynamic research activities in these areas, this study investigated the major contributors of ‘-metrics’ research for the last decade at three levels: nations, institutions, and documents. ‘-metrics’ literature of this study was obtained from the Science Citation Index for the years 2001-2011. In this analysis, we used Pathfinder network, PNNC algorithm, PageRank and several indicators based on h-index. In terms of international collaborations, USA and England were identified as major countries. At the institutional level, Katholieke University, Leuven and the University of Amsterdam in Europe and Indiana University and the Office of Naval Research in the USA have led co-research projects in informetrics areas. At the document level, Hirsch’s h-index paper and Ingwersen’s web impact factor paper were identified as the most influential work by two methods: PageRank and single paper h-index.

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최근 문화유산기관에 대한 이용 요구가 복합화 되어 가는 가운데 미국에서 도서관, 기록관, 박물관의 기능을 통합한 라키비움의 개념이 제시되었고, 이후 국내 정보학계에서는 관련 연구가 유수 진행되었다. 그러나 라키비움은 아직까지 현실적으로 구현되지 않은 기관이므로 이에 관한 선행 연구들 또한 이론적인 전개에 중심을 두고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 국내의 도서관, 기록관, 박물관을 대상으로 라키비움 리모델링에 필요한 기관 현황 분석 활동 계획을 수립하였다. 방법적으로는 기존 라키비움 공간기획 연구의 절차를 정밀화하였고 분석 도구로는 관련 법률과 지침 등을 활용하여, 보다 현실적인 라키비움 공간기획의 실행 방안을 제안하였다.

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There are increasing needs for complex information services for user of cultural heritage institution recently. And the concept of “Larchiveum”, merging of functions of libraries, archives and museums, is suggested in United States and researches associated with this concept are progressed on Korean information science. At present, however, the larchiveum has not been materialized, and hence researches focus on theoretical frameworks. Therefore, this study establishes plans for an analysis with planning of institutions that libraries, archives and museums are remodeled into larchiveum. Methodologically, the research processes of existing larchiveum spatial planning are specified. More realistic implementing measures for larchiveum spatial planning are suggested through utilization of related law & guidelines as analysis tools.

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이 연구는 한국에서 SCIE 논문을 가장 활발하게 발표하고 있는 분야인 재료공학과 대학교수 449명이 2006년부터 2010년까지 발표한 SCIE 논문수와 피인용 횟수를 측정하고 이에 영향을 미치는 요인을 구체적으로 규명하고자 하였다. 연구 결과 논문수가 많은 교수가 피인용 횟수도 높은 것으로 나타나 외국의 선행연구 결과와 유사하였고, 논문수에 영향을 주는 요인은 교수의 직급, 출신학부, 재직 대학의 소재지일 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다. 피인용에 영향을 주는 요인으로 인적 특성 가운데 출신학부가 있었고, 환경적 특성으로 재직 대학의 소재지가 서울인지 지방인지에 따라 피인용 횟수에 뚜렷한 차이가 있음을 확인하였다. 장기적으로 국내 SCIE 논문의 피인용을 증진하기 위해서는 피인용을 촉발할 수 있는 기초 연구에 보다 많은 지원을 해야 하고, 대학과 연구비 지원기관의 연구성과 평가에 피인용 횟수도 포함시키는 등 평가방식도 보완할 필요성이 제기되었다.

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This study pointed the factors affecting the number of articles and citations in material science which is the most active publishing disciplinary in South Korea. This was conducted by gathering the information on SCIE which had been published by 449 Korean professors in material science from 2006 to 2010. One of the results was that the professors who had published more papers received more citations than those who did not, reconfirming former studies abroad. It was observed that the factors majors impacting on the number of papers may be their academic positions, educational backgrounds (particularly undergraduates), and places of work. The number of citations was affected by the authors’ undergraduate and their locations of the work. This study suggested a need for more supports on basic researches by universities and funding bodies and an amendment of performance measures to include the number of citations.