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Examining on the Relationship Between Interdisciplinarity and Research Impact with Analyzing the Journals of Library and Information Science Field

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2013, 30(4), pp.7~29
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2013.30.4.007
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : August 29, 2013
  • Accepted : December 4, 2013
  • Published : December 30, 2013

SoYoon Park 1 Eunkyung Chung 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

As interdisciplinary research has been dominant in various fields, the purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between interdisciplinarity and research impact in the field of Library and Information Science. For a data set, ten journals ranked as the top of 2011 JCR’s in terms of JIF (Journal Impact Factor) were selected. The citation data of 1,873 articles from the ten journals were collected from the WoS during the period from 2006 to 2010. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, as network analysis was conducted to investigate the interdisciplinarity of LIS field, interdisciplinarity indicators, and research impact factors were statistically analyzed. The findings of this study confirmed the interdisciplinary knowledge structure of the LIS field as previous studies identified. More importantly, this study demonstrated that a positive correlation existed between interdisciplinarity represented as betweenness centrality and research impact.

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