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http://dx.doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2021.38.2.227

Analyzing the Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity of Humanities and Social Science Journals in KCI: Focusing on General and Miscellaneous Fields  

Lee, Jae Yun (명지대학교 문헌정보학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society for information Management / v.38, no.2, 2021 , pp. 227-250 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study analyzed humanities and social science (HSS) journals of KCI to examine the multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in the general and miscellaneous fields (hereinafter referred to as 'GM fields'), The multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity identified in this study will be a foundation to improve classification of KCI journals in GM fields. Each journal's multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity were measured by journal-level entropy and document-level entropy, respectively, in the citation relationships. According to the analysis, GM field journals have wide ranges of multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. To improve classification quality of journals in GM fields, the general humanities should be considered as a new classification class for the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary journals in the humanities. Furthermore, this study proposes a strategy to reclassify GM field journals of HSS according to their multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity.
Keywords
journals; multidisciplinarity; interdisciplinarity; citation analysis; entropy; humanities; social sciences; journal classification scheme;
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