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A Study on Research Trends of Library Science and Information Science Through Analyzing Subject Headings of Doctoral Dissertations Recently Published in the U.S.

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2018, 35(3), pp.11~39
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2018.35.3.011
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : August 18, 2018
  • Accepted : September 27, 2018
  • Published : September 30, 2018

Hyunjung Kim 1

1서울여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The study examines the research trends of doctoral dissertations in Library Science and Information Science published in the U.S. for the last 5 years. Data collected from PQDT Global includes 1,016 doctoral dissertations containing “Library Science” or “Information Science” as subject headings, and keywords extracted from those dissertations were used for a network analysis, which helps identifying the intellectual structure of the dissertations. Also, the analysis using 103 subject heading keywords resulted in various centrality measures, including triangle betweenness centrality and nearest neighbor centrality, as well as 26 clusters of associated subject headings. The most frequently studied subjects include computer-related subjects, education-related subjects, and communication-related subjects, and a cluster with information science as the most central subject contains most of the computer-related keywords, while a cluster with library science as the most central subject contains many of the education-related keywords. Other related subjects include various user groups for user studies, and subjects related to information systems such as management, economics, geography, and biomedical engineering.

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