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Industrial Engineering as a Multidisciplinary Field : Exploring the Structure of Academic Convergence in Industrial Engineering by Journal Citation Network Analysis

융합 학문으로서의 산업공학 : 학술지 인용 네트워크 분석을 활용한 산업공학의 학문적 융합 구조 탐색

  • Jeong, Bokwon (The Graduate School of Public Policy and Information Technology, Seoul National University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Hakyeon (Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
  • 정보권 (서울과학기술대학교 IT정책전문대학원) ;
  • 이학연 (서울과학기술대학교 글로벌융합산업공학과)
  • Received : 2016.01.21
  • Accepted : 2016.05.20
  • Published : 2016.06.15
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Abstract

One of the distinctive characteristics of industrial engineering (IE) is its multidisciplinarity. This paper explores the multidisciplinary nature of IE using journal citation network analysis. Using the relatedness indexes of IE journals obtained from journal citation report (JCR), we firstly construct the IE network only composed of 26 IE journals. The resulting IE network is partitioned into three sub-networks: management engineering, manufacturing/quality, and ergonomics. We then propose the IE convergence network which includes 81 related journals in other disciplines as well as 26 IE journals. Scrutinizing the IE convergence network reveals that IE has a high degree of interactions with seven disciplines : Operations Research and Management Science, Statistics and Probability, Manufacturing Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering Design, Business Management, Human Factors and Ergonomics. We investigate the contributions of the related disciplines to IE as well as contributions of IE to the related disciplines. The role of IE journals in exchanging knowledge with related disciplines is also identified by brokerage analysis. It is shown that visualizing and analyzing the IE convergence network can provide an excellent overview of the multidisciplinary structure of IE, which can help IE researchers easily grasp the state-of-the art of IE research.

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