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Comparison of Research Performance Between Domestic and International Library and Information Science Scholars

국제 및 국내 문헌정보학 분야의 연구성과 비교 분석

  • 양기덕 (경북대학교 사회과학대학 문헌정보학과) ;
  • 김선욱 (경북대학교 일반대학원 문헌정보학과) ;
  • 이혜경 (경북대학교 일반대학원 문헌정보학과)
  • Received : 2021.01.19
  • Accepted : 2021.02.08
  • Published : 2021.02.28
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Abstract

In order to assess the state of library and information science (LIS) research in Korea, the study analyzed bibliometric data of papers published in past 18 years in Korea Citation Index (KCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals. The analysis of study data, which consisted of 6,301 KCI journal papers with 26,474 citations and 86,727 SSCI journal papers with 1,196,961 citations from 2002 to 2020, involved comparison of research productivity and impact, collaboration trends, and key areas of research between domestic and international LIS scholars with normalizations by units of analysis for size differences. Even with size normalization, the study found a marked difference in citation patterns between domestic and international LIS research. Korean LIS authors were twice as productive as international LIS authors but a little over a half as impactful. The results also showed a much higher level of skewness in international research, where a fraction of top authors, institutions, and journals received a lion's share of citations. The trend of increasing co-authorship was much more pronounced among international publication, where the recent popularity of larger collaboration groups suggests multi-disciplinary and increasingly complex nature of modern LIS research in the world stage. The keyword analysis revealed a much more diverse subject area in international than domestic LIS research with a recent shift towards technology, such as big data, blockchain, and altmetrics. Keywords in SSCI journals also exhibited a less connection between popularity and impact than KCI keywords, where popular keywords did not necessarily correspond to impactful keywords.

본 연구는 최근의 국내 문헌정보학 분야의 연구성과 현황과 경향을 파악하기 위하여 지난 18년간의(2002-2020) 국내(KCI) 6,301편의 학술논문데이터, 인용 수 26,474건과 국제(WoS) 86,727편의 학술논문데이터, 인용 수 1,196,961건을 수집하여 연구의 생산성과 영향력, 공동연구 경향과 연구주제분야 등을 비교 분석하였다. 그 결과, 국제와 국내 모두 저자의 생산성이 높으나 영향력은 상대적으로 낮았으며, 이러한 차이는 국제에서 더 극명하게 나타났으며, 일부 최상위 저자와 기관, 학술지에 생산성과 영향력이 편향되어있었다. 공동연구는 국제와 국내 모두 지속해서 증가하고 있었는데, 이러한 현상은 현대의 문헌정보학 연구가 과거보다 간 학문적이며 연구범위가 다각화되고 있음을 시사한다. 키워드 분석을 통해 국제가 국내보다 훨씬 다양한 주제로의 연구가 진행중임이 나타났으며, 인기 있는 연구주제가 반드시 영향력이 높은 것은 아님이 밝혀졌다.

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이 논문(저서)은 2019학년도 경북대학교 연구년 교수 연구비에 의하여 연구되었음.

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