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A Study on Scholarly Communication Trends in Korean Library and Information Science Studies through Author Group Analysis

저자집단 분석을 통한 한국 문헌정보학의 학술커뮤니케이션 동향 연구

  • 이재윤 (명지대학교 문헌정보학과)
  • Received : 2023.04.21
  • Accepted : 2023.05.09
  • Published : 2023.05.31
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Abstract

This study analyzes the authorship of all articles published in four domestic LIS journals over a 20-year period from 2002 to 2021 to examine the current status of scholarly communication through Korean LIS journals and suggest future prospects. To achieve this purpose, the study analyzed the number of co-authors, the proportion of returning authors, the publishing preference index (PPI), the author group change trend, and the researcher attraction index (RAI). The analysis revealed the level of collaborative research in each journal, the degree of formation of related author groups by journal, the inflection point of author group changes, the characteristics of emerging researchers, and the degree of author sharing between journals. Overall, 2015 was found to be an inflection point where the author community of Korean LIS journals changed. The newer generation of researchers showed a slightly different behavior of publishing papers than the older generation, as they mainly conduct collaborative research. These quantitative results could be triangulated with the qualitative interview data of previous studies to further strengthen the development strategy of Korean LIS journals.

이 연구에서는 국내 문헌정보학 분야 4개 학회 학술지에 2002년부터 2021년까지 20년 동안 게재된 논문 전체의 저자를 분석하여 국내 문헌정보학 학술지를 통한 학술 커뮤니케이션 현황을 고찰하고 향후 전망을 제시하는 것을 목표로 한다. 이를 위해서 학술지별 공저자 수, 귀환저자 비율, 투고선호지수, 저자집단 변화 추세, 연구자 유인지수 등을 분석하였다. 분석 결과 4개 학술지의 공동연구 수준, 학술지별로 연관된 저자집단의 형성 정도, 저자집단이 변화된 변곡점, 신진 연구자 집단의 특성, 학술지 간 저자 공유 정도 등이 파악되었다. 전체적으로 2015년이 한국 문헌정보학 저자집단이 변화한 변곡점으로 나타났으며, 이후에 등장한 신진 연구자들은 주로 공동연구를 수행하면서 이전과 다소 다른 학술지 논문발표 행태를 보였다. 계량분석을 수행한 이 연구의 결과가 질적 연구방법을 사용한 선행 연구와 함께 활용된다면 한국 문헌정보학 학술지 발전 전략에 대한 다각화 연구를 수행한 효과를 거둘 것으로 기대된다.

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