A study on the intellectual structure and evolution of library and information science in China basedon author co-citation analysis

• 作者: MA Ruimin NI Chaoqun
• 来源期刊: 中国图书馆学报年刊(英文版)
• 学科: 社会科学
• 年，卷（期）: 2012,（1）
• 页码范围: 164-176
• 页数: 13页
• 分类号: G353.1

摘要

Based on cluster analysis and pathfinder algorithm,this paper proposed a new approach to visualize the results of author co-citation analysis and explored the intellectual structure and its evolution characteristics of Library and Information Science(LIS) in China using the proposed approach with a large scale of data ranging from 1998 to 2007.The results showed that research of LIS in China during 1998 and 2007 mainly focused on bibliometrics,scientometrics,informetrics,the fundamentals of information science,competitive intelligence,network information organization,retrieval and services,intellectual property,knowledge management and information resources management,digital information resources development and utilization,bibliography,information organization and retrieval,the fundamentals of library science.A trend is also seen that with time passes,the topics of network bibliometrics and competitive intelligence are gaining momentum,while topics of bibliography and digital library are losing momentum.