A bibliometric study of information society literature

• Main Authors: Low, Chwan Chieh, 盧傳傑
• Other Authors: Tsay, Ming Yueh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26796549403683048379

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 圖書資訊與檔案學研究所 === 100 === 　　The purpose of this research is to find out the relationship between the discussions of the Information Societies within various disciplines, development of the information society, the research content of the Information Society and its future trends. We adopt the frequencies of the publication, publication languages, journal countries of publications, journal sources, time-cited, disciplines of subject categories and document type field from the bibliographic database as analyst component. 　　This study analyzes the characteristics of Information Society literatures from 1963 to 2011 by a Bibliometric Approach. These data are retrieved from SCIE, SSCI and A&;HCI database which were covered by WOK. This research focuses on the distribution analysis of the journal literatures in order to define the core journals of this field. In addition, include the highly productive journals, cited journal, impact factor and the collected status by JCR to verify the quality of the previous stated core journals. Through analyzing the distributions and changes of the disciplines, we have a full screen on what subjects the information society related and what affections influenced by these subjects areas. Through integration and determination, this study reveals the future trends of the Information Society. 　　The results of the research as follow: (1) The distribution of information society is quite dispersed, but core journals still available. (2) The distribution of the Information Society journals are roughly fits Bradford Law, but not fully consistent with Bradford-Zipf’s S-shaped curve. (3) The document type covered most by the core journal and top ten core journals are articles (4) Information Science and Library Science is the main discipline in core journal area. (5) The qualities of the core journals are reliable. (6) Information Science and Library Science covered most of the disciplines in the literatures of information society. (7) Information Society’s literatures are under a flourishing development (8) Education and Educational research, Economics and Management will cover most of the disciplines to explore the information society. (9) UK is the major countries of information society publication and English is the most often used language. 　　Finally, the results of this research provide a full screen on researchers in order to understand the past, current and future of the information society issues, to pick out more suitable, more popular and more influential journals and literatures. Furthermore, this study can be used as reference to the library's collection development and management.