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Since the 1990s, informetrics has grown in popularity among information scientists. Today it is a general discipline that comprises all kinds of metrics, including bibliometrics and scientometrics. To illustrate the dynamic progress of this field, this study aims to identify the structure and infrastructure of the informetrics literature using statistical and profiling methods. Informetrics literature was obtained from the Web of Knowledge for the years 2001-2010. The selected articles contain least one of these keywords: ‘informetrics’, ‘bibliometrics’, ‘scientometrics’, ‘webometrics’, and ‘citation analysis.’ Noteworthy publication patterns of major countries were identified by a statistical method. Intellectual structure analysis shows major research areas, authors, and journals.

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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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이 연구에서는 계량정보학적 기법을 사용하여 국내 트위터 관련 연구의 동향을 분석하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 KCI에서 검색된 2009년부터 2014년 4월까지의 트위터 관련 논문 539편에서 제목, 초록, 키워드를 추출하여 분석 자료로 삼았다. 프로파일링 기법을 이용해 트위터 관련 연구가 수행된 학문 분야와 저널을 분석하였고, 동시출현단어 분석을 통해 트위터 관련 연구의 세부 주제 영역을 파악하였다. 그 결과, 국내 트위터 관련 연구는 53개 학문분야에서 다양하게 다루어지고 있으며 핵심 분야는 신문방송학, 경영학, 컴퓨터학 분야로 나타났다. 세부 주제로는 선거를 비롯한 정치 관련 이슈가 가장 많이 다루어졌으며, 기업/구매 관련 이슈도 활발히 연구되었음을 확인할 수 있었다.

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This study explored the research trends on Twitter in Korea by informetric methods. All 539 articles on Twitter published from 2009 to the April of 2014 were obtained from the KCI. Only article titles, abstracts, and keywords by authors were used in analysis. Academic journals in many different disciplines where Twitter articles were produced were analysed by profiling, and then, the subject areas of researches on Twitter were analysed by co-word analysis. The results of this study showed that Twitter-related papers were published in as many as 53 disciplines with journalism, business administration, and computer science to be core fields. It was also found that the core subject areas are political issues and business.