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The Quantitative Analysis of Articles in Journal of the Korean Earth Science Society during 1979-2014

한국지구과학회지 논문(1979-2014)의 정량적 분석

  • Cho, Young Sun (Department of Earth Science Education, Korea National University of Education) ;
  • Kim, Jeong Yul (Department of Earth Science Education, Korea National University of Education)
  • 조영선 (한국교원대학교 지구과학교육과) ;
  • 김정률 (한국교원대학교 지구과학교육과)
  • Received : 2014.09.22
  • Accepted : 2014.12.10
  • Published : 2014.12.31

Abstract

In the celebration of the $50^{th}$ anniversary of the Korean Earth Science Society, the whole articles published in Journal of the Korean Earth Science Society (JKESS) were quantitatively analyzed. JKESS has played a major role in exchanging academically among earth science education specialists and in educating next generation for the last 36 years since it was founded in 1979. The total number of 1544 articles in thirty five volumes about the earth sciences and the earth science pedagogy has been published by August, 2014, and the number of the yearly published articles has been increasing. Regarding the research area, 69.3% was published in earth sciences and the other 30.7% was in earth science education; the percentage of research articles in geology, atmospheric science, environmental science, oceanography, and astronomy was 55.2, 17.6, 16.0, 6.0, and 5.2%, respectively. The number of research articles on atmospheric science and environmental science has recently been increasing, whereas, earth science education research articles have been" decreasing, which was similar to the pattern seen fifteen years ago. We thought that one of the reasons was related to a new journal named, "Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education" started to publish in December, 2008. The number of articles authored or co-authored with foreigner scholars was totaled 53, which is only 3.4% of the entire number of published articles. It suggests that international advertisement via public relations as well as the development of English homepage be necessary. In order to become an excellent registered academic journal, it is the time to comprehensively discuss how to improve both the quality growth and the quantity of JKESS. According to the Ministry of Education, it is now in its planning stage to convert the current registration system of the academic journals to the autonomous evaluation system in academia. Therefore, we recommend that Journal of the Korean Earth Science Society be prepared for the upcoming future change.

한국지구과학회 창립 50주년을 맞아 1979년 창간 한 이후 36년간 지구과학과 지구과학교육 전문가들의 학술교류와 다음 세대 교육에 큰 역할을 한 한국지구과학회지에 출판된 논문을 정량적으로 분석하였다. 한국지구과학회지를 통하여 2014년 8월 기준 35권 1,544편의 논문이 실렸고, 년 간 실리는 논문 수도 증가하여 왔다. 한국지구과학회지에 실린 논문들은 지구과학 내용학 관련 논문이 69.3%, 지구과학 교육학 논문이 30.7%이며, 내용학 논문 중 지질학 55.2%, 대기과학 17.6%, 환경과학 16.0%, 해양학 6.0%, 천문학 5.2%의 분포를 보였다. 최근 들어 대기과학과 환경과학 논문 수가 크게 증가하고 있으나, 지구과학 교육학 관련 논문수는 15년 전 수준으로 감소하였다. 이는 2008년 12월 창간호를 낸 대한지구과학교육학회지의 창간과 관련이 있는 것으로 보인다. 한국지구과학회지에 게재된 외국인 저자들의 공동 참여 논문 수는 53편으로 전체 논문의 3.4%에 불과하여 한국지구과학회지가 우수등재학술지로 정착하기 위해서는 학회지의 양적인 팽창 뿐만 아니라 질적인 성장에도 관심을 기울여야 할 것으로 생각되며, 영문 홈페이지 개선과 함께 국제적 홍보가 필요하다고 생각된다. 교육부는 앞으로 학술지 등재제도의 지나친 문제점의 발생으로 학술지 등재제도 폐지를 통한 학계 자율평가체제로의 전환을 구상 중이며 한국지구과학회지도 이러한 미래의 변화에 대해 철저히 준비하여 학회의 위상을 제고하여야 할 것으로 생각된다.

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