| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 圖書資訊與檔案學研究所 === 100 === Humanities, those branches of knowledge that concern themselves with human beings and their culture or with analytic and critical methods of inquiry derived from an appreciation of human values and of the unique ability of the human spirit to express itself. Via Taiwan Humanities Citation Index Core and Arts &; Humanities Citation Index, this study select 2011 representative journals of five disciplines to analysis their citations, and explore and compare humanities citation type and characteristics as to observe humanities scholars’ citation behavior.
The results are as follows: 1.The analysis of Citation and Reference in Humanities: (1) The humanities citation mostly refer to books except the discipline of language; (2) In addition to books and periodicals, the citation emphasis on dissertations and theses in the discipline of literature, philosophy and art, and History focuses on the use of files and newspapers; (3) The majority of citations were to Chinese materials; (4) The half-life of the cited journal in the humanities is average 16.8 years; 2. The position of citation in humanities literature and research features: (1)The ratio of describing research literature in humanities is higher;(2) Humanities scholars frequently use citations at the part of body, which seldom at the part of conclusion;(3) The content note usage in humanities is frequently phenomenon;3. The classification of citation in humanities is mostly “primary sources”; 4. The citation characteristics of Linguistics differ from other discipline of humanities.
The results can be applied to planning the resource type to libraries or research units, realize the academic information needs and characteristics of humanities scholars, and defining important research sources to provide researchers complete information services. Meanwhile, the analysis can be used in proposals of building citation index database, providing scholars to write notes and citation format, and as the recommend for humanities’ database.
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