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Exploring a Researcher's Personal Research History through Self-Citation Network and Citation Identity

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2012, 29(1), pp.157~174
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2012.29.1.157
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : February 19, 2012
  • Accepted : March 21, 2012
  • Published : March 30, 2012

Lee, Jae Yun 1

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ABSTRACT

This paper compares two recent methods for exploring a scientist's research history: citation identity and self-citation network. The former is proposed by White(2000), while the latter is suggested by Hellsten et al.(2007). An experimental citation analysis was carried out on the research output of Young Mee Chung, a renouned Korean information scientist. The result shows that the two methods divided the research period into two sub-periods in the same way. They also identified the major research themes very similarly. In the analysis of each method's performance in depth, the two methods revealed different functions to understand a researcher's history. Citation identity was useful to identify authors who have affected Chung's research in terms of research topics. whereas, self-citation network was successful to identify the core papers and leading papers of the research sub-periods. This study indicates the combination of two methods can provide rich information on a scientist's research history.

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