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As co-authorship has been prevalent within science communities, counting the credit of co-authors appropriately is an important consideration, particularly in the context of identifying the knowledge structure of fields with author-based analysis. The purpose of this study is to compare the characteristics of co-author credit counting methods by utilizing correlations, multidimensional scaling, and pathfinder networks. To achieve this purpose, this study analyzed a dataset of 2,014 journal articles and 3,892 cited authors from the Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea: Planning & Design from 2003 to 2008 in the field of Architecture in Korea. In this study, six different methods of crediting co-authors are selected for comparative analyses. These methods are first-author counting (m1), straight full counting (m2), and fractional counting (m3), proportional counting with a total score of 1 (m4), proportional counting with a total score between 1 and 2 (m5), and first-author-weighted fractional counting (m6). As shown in the data analysis, m1 and m2 are found as extreme opposites, since m1 counts only first authors and m2 assigns all co-authors equally with a credit score of 1. With correlation and multidimensional scaling analyses, among five counting methods (from m2 to m6), a group of counting methods including m3, m4, and m5 are found to be relatively similar. When the knowledge structure is visualized with pathfinder network, the knowledge structure networks from different counting methods are differently presented due to the connections of individual links. In addition, the internal validity shows that first-author-weighted fractional counting (m6) might be considered a better method to author clustering. Findings demonstrate that different co-author counting methods influence the network results of knowledge structure and a better counting method is revealed for author clustering.

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이 연구에서는 White가 제안한 자아 중심 인용 분석을 응용하여 연구 주제에 대한 다층적인 분석을 가능하게 해주는 자아 중심 주제 인용 분석 기법을 제안하였다. 시험적으로 폭소노미에 대한 연구문헌을 Web of Science 데이터베이스로부터 검색한 후 이에 대한 주제 인용 분석을 수행해보았다. 폭소노미 주제에 대한 자아 중심 인용 분석은 자아 문헌 집단 분석, 주제 인용 정체성 분석, 주제 인용 이미지 분석의 세 단계로 나뉘어 수행되었다. 분석 결과 이 연구에서 제안된 자아 중심 주제 인용 분석을 통해서 폭소노미 연구의 내부 지적 구조와 외부 지적 구조를 함께 파악하는 것이 가능함이 확인되었다.

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This research aims to present the ego-centered topic citation analysis, which is a new application of White’s ego-centered citation analysis, for analyzing multilayered knowledge structure of a subject domain. An experimental topic citation analysis was carried out on the folksonomy research documents retrieved from Web of Science. Ego-centered topic citation analyses on folksonomy research domain were conducted in three stages: ego-documents set analysis, topic citation identity analysis, and topic citation image analysis. The results showed that the ego-centered topic citation analysis suggested in this study was successfully performed to illustrate the inner and the outer knowledge structures of folksonomy research domain.

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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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지적구조 분석을 위해 가중 네트워크를 시각화해야 하는 경우에 패스파인더 네트워크와 같은 링크 삭감 알고리즘이 널리 사용되고 있다. 이 연구에서는 네트워크 시각화를 위한 링크 삭감 알고리즘의 적합도를 측정하기 위한 지표로 NetRSQ를 제안하였다. NetRSQ는 개체간 연관성 데이터와 생성된 네트워크에서의 경로 길이 사이의 순위 상관도에 기반하여 네트워크의 적합도를 측정한다. NetRSQ의 타당성을 확인하기 위해서 몇 가지 네트워크 생성 방식에 대해 정성적으로 평가를 했었던 선행 연구의 데이터를 대상으로 시험적으로 NetRSQ를 측정해보았다. 그 결과 품질이 좋게 평가된 네트워크일수록 NetRSQ가 높게 측정됨을 확인하였다. 40가지 계량서지적 데이터에 대해서 4가지 링크 삭감 알고리즘을 적용한 결과에 대해서 NetRSQ로 품질을 측정하는 실험을 수행한 결과, 특정 알고리즘의 네트워크 표현 결과가 항상 좋은 품질을 보이는 것은 아니며, 반대로 항상 나쁜 품질을 보이는 것도 아님을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 이 연구에서 제안한 NetRSQ는 생성된 계량서지적 네트워크의 품질을 측정하여 최적의 기법을 선택하는 근거로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

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Link reduction algorithms such as pathfinder network are the widely used methods to overcome problems with the visualization of weighted networks for knowledge domain analysis. This study proposed NetRSQ, an indicator to measure the goodness of fit of a link reduction algorithm for the network visualization. NetRSQ is developed to calculate the fitness of a network based on the rank correlation between the path length and the degree of association between entities. The validity of NetRSQ was investigated with data from previous research which qualitatively evaluated several network generation algorithms. As the primary test result, the higher degree of NetRSQ appeared in the network with better intellectual structures in the quality evaluation of networks built by various methods. The performance of 4 link reduction algorithms was tested in 40 datasets from various domains and compared with NetRSQ. The test shows that there is no specific link reduction algorithm that performs better over others in all cases. Therefore, the NetRSQ can be a useful tool as a basis of reliability to select the most fitting algorithm for the network visualization of intellectual structures.