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Bibliometric Analysis to Analyze Topic Areas of Faculty for Academic Library Service

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2013, 30(1), pp.237~258
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2013.30.1.237
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : February 20, 2013
  • Accepted : March 16, 2013
  • Published : March 30, 2013

Sanghee Choi 1

1대구가톨릭대학교

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ABSTRACT

As topics of researchers become diverse horizontally or vertically, academic libraries have difficulties to identify the dynamic change of researchers' needs for academic publications. This research aims to illustrate the topic areas of researchers in a department of university by analyzing bibliographies of their publications. First, researchers' publications were used to discover the topic areas where the researchers had published. Second, the cited publications in those papers were analysed to identify the expanded topic areas of these researchers. Finally, highly cited journals were analyzed by network analysis method. The major finding is that the importance of topic areas by the number of journals was not necessarily proportional to that by the number of papers. Researchers have a tendency to use many papers in a small number of journals in a certain topic area. Furthermore, the importance of topic areas discovered by researchers' publications was not the same as that discovered by researchers' citations.

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