Detecting Research Trends in Korean Information Science Research, 2000-2011

Seo, Eun-Gyoung (서은경); So-Young Yu (유소영)

doi:10.3743/KOSIM.2013.30.4.215

Detecting Research Trends in Korean Information Science Research, 2000-2011

Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
Abbr : JKOSIM
2013, 30(4), pp.215~239
DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2013.30.4.215
Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
Received : November 27, 2013
Accepted : December 13, 2013
Published : December 30, 2013

Seo, Eun-Gyoung ¹, So-Young Yu ²

¹한성대학교
²한남대학교

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ABSTRACT

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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research trends analysis, co-word analysis, information science, time-series analysis, Korea

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Detecting Research Trends in Korean Information Science Research, 2000-2011

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