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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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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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이 연구에서는 특정 주제 분야의 핵심적이고 전역적인 연구 동향을 제공하는 연구지원 정보서비스 개발을 위해 SPLC(Search Path Link Count) 분석을 적용할 때, 데이터의 범위와 인용빈도 설정에 대하여 탐험적으로 살펴보고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 Web of Science에서 검색된 RGB LED 분야의 2,318개 논문과 20,109개 상위 인용논문으로 5개의 데이터셋을 구성하였다. 각 데이터셋에서 히스토리오그래프와 SPLC 네트워크를 인용빈도 임계치를 변화시키면서 28개 주요 연구 동향 네트워크를 추출하여, 인용문헌의 포함여부와 인용빈도 임계치 설정이 SPLC 네트워크에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. 그리고 특정 기관 소속 연구자들에게 SPLC 네트워크에 포함된 198개 주요 논문 리스트를 제공하고 피드백을 받음으로써, 전역적 연구 동향이 개인 연구자의 정보 요구에 부합하는지 살펴보았다. 분석 결과, 분석 대상에 상위 인용문헌 포함 여부와 인용빈도임계치에 따라 추출되는 SPLC 네트워크가 변화되었으나, 일정 인용빈도임계치값에서는 수렴하였다. 그리고 개인 연구자의 정보 요구는 SPLC를 통해 제공된 전역적 연구 동향과 출판년도의 차이는 있지만 대체적으로 일치하는 것으로 나타나, 인용문헌을 포함하여 인용빈도임계치를 변화시키는 SPLC 분석을 통해 개인 이용자가 원하는 전역적 연구 정보를 제공해 줄 수 있는 것으로 해석된다. 이를 일반화하기 위해서는 이 탐색적 연구에서 제안된 방법을 다양한 분야에 적용하는 후속 연구가 필요할 것이다.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the data coverage and citation threshold for analyzing SPLC(Search Path Link Count) as a main path of a historiograph of a certain topic in order to provide ‘core’ papers of global research trends to a researcher affiliated with a local R&D institution. 5 datasets were constructed by retrieving and collecting 2,318 articles on RGB LED on Web of Science published from 1990-2013 and 20,109 articles which cited these original 2,318. The SPLC analysis was performed on each dataset by increasing the threshold of citation counts, and the changes and resilience of the 28 extraced networks were compared. The results of user feedback on 198 unique core papers from 28 SPLC networks received from LED researchers affiliated with a Korean government-sponsored research institution were also analyzed. As a result, it is found that the nodes in each SPLC network in each dataset were differentiated by the citation counts, while the changes in the structure of SPLC networks were slight after the networks’ citation counts were set at 40. Additionally, the user feedback showed that personalized research interest generally matched to the global research trends identified by the SPLC analysis.