| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 資訊與圖書館學系碩士班 === 94 === The purpose of this case study is the analysis of the relationship of library & information science of JASIST and other disciplines to research the obsolescence between JASIST and other disciplines. This study focuses on the citation data of JASIST with 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2004, and makes these bibliographic databases that are Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory and OCLC WorldCat to analyze disciplines and subjects of journals and books. Besides, synchronous was used to measure the median citation age, then observed the obsolescence of literatures.
The results of this study revealed:
1.The phenomenon analysis of JASIST’s citation:
(1)The literatures, citations or average of every literature citation are cited by JASIST grow a lot.
(2)In number of citation and average of every literature citation, research paper and special topic paper are growth. But brief has obviously variations.
(3)Journals, books, electronic resources and conference literatures which cited by JASIST are developing, especially electronic resources and conference literatures.
(4)No matter what article style, journal articles and books both are of high value to refer.
2.The characteristics of journals in JASIST’s citation:
(1)When JASIST cite journal articles, information studies are the major objective.
(2)There are more and more Journals are published and journals’ countries publish this kind of journals. However, their quantity and range are improved.
(3)Citing journals have many kinds of language editions, but the English edition is most popular.
(4)JASIST refers to extensive kinds of journals, but journals of library & information science still override others.
(5)Most subjects, are cited by JASIST, are in library & information science and computer science.
3.The characteristics of books in JASIST’s citation:
(1)JASIST cites books discretely, but the top of all categories is library &information science books every research year.
(2)Science books are most cited by JASIST. The second reward is the library &information science and the social science books.
(3)Information storage and search system is the most popular subject, which is cited by JASIST.
4.The obsolescence analysis of journals in JASIST’s citation:
(1)JASIST likes the journals’ articles which are published below 7 years, and focus on the article from information or computer studies.
(2)In disciplines, technology journals cited by JASIST just have the short citied period; philosophy, psychology and religion journals cited by JASIST are much long.
(3)In sub-disciplines, math and engineering (general) & civil engineering journals cited by JASIST have the short citied period; psychology journals cited by JASIST are opposite.
According to the results of this study, there are five suggestions in the followed list:
1.The bibliographic databases Comply with a particular classification, and establish a standardized subject list.
2.The journal publishers should be completely formulated a regulation of reference, and overhaul references by paper.
3.Citation Analysis could combine with Webometrics in the future.
4.Empoly many methods of obsolescence to proceed studies.
5.For readers and authors are interested in information studies, they can peruse articles in the complete themes of JASIST.
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