• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.22 no.3 s.57
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• pp.379-408
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to investigate the research trends of library and information science in Korea by means of the subject analysis of the Korean journal articles published during the last sixty years and by means of the ciation analysis of the literatures cited in the journal articles. The results of this study are as follows. First, the subjects of the journal articles are difference from the articles by publication period. The core subjects of the research have been changed over the years. Second, the subjects of library and information science literatures in foreign languages cited in the journal articles are difference from the literatures by citation period and by literature age. Third, the subjects of other disciplinary literatures in foreign langauges cited in the journal articles is difference from the literatures by citation period and by literature age. Fourth, although the half-life of library and information science literatures cited in the journal articles is difference from the literatures by subject, the half-life of the literatures of this discipline is 10-year.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.22 no.3 s.57
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• pp.85-102
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to analysis the type of cited materials, dependence ratio of foreign information of domestic researchers, and to predicts half-life of life science for the collection development of libraries and user friendly information services. The journal articles was extracted from five subjects-medical science, pharmacy, food science, agricultural science, microbiology. In result, it was found that it citing the scholarly journal most plentifully, and dependence ratio of foreign information of domestic researchers was high most the microbiology. And then, half-life of life science was found 8.98 in agricultural science, and 7.11 in food science, and 6.96 in pharmacy, and so on.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.211-222
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• 2009

Electronic publishing has influenced, and in some ways changed, information seeking, reading patterns and citation behaviours. This study collected the Cited Half-Lives, the indicator implies the life-span of scholarly journals, from JCR Social Science edition the before and after of the prevalence of electronic journals, and observed if there are some changes in these two periods. The analysis results of eight disciplines show that the average Cited Half-Lives increased in 2007 than in 1994 for seven disciplines except the demography. Especially in the four disciplines of economics, education, finance and sociology, the average Cited Half-Lives increased significantly. This results show that the concentration, researchers cite more recent articles and concentrate their citations on fewer ones, is lightening and the dispersion of citations is actually increasing. With the online availability of articles and journals the old online materials can be often accessed, used and cited more frequently, the more growth potential of Cited Half-Lives are made in a digital environment. Further research needs to investigate if the phenomenon will become more obvious in various disciplines after a few years.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2003.08a
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• pp.233-244
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• 2003

본 연구는 우리나라 디자인학분야 5개 학회(협회)지의 2002년분에 인용된 3,046개 문헌을 인용문헌의 형태별, 발행지별, 발행년도별, 주제별로 분석하여 디자인학분야 연구자의 문헌 이용행태와 문헌의 이용가치 감소현상 즉 반감기를 측정하였다. 연구결과 디자인학분야 연구자들은 단행본(62.5%), 학술잡지기사(21.8%), 논문(10.8%), 보고서(2.9%), 기타(2%)순으로 많이 이용하였으며, 단행본의 인용이 현저히 많은 것으로 자료 형태별 이용에 있어 국내 디자인학분야 연구자의 연구활동이 국내 사회과학, 미술분야와 유사하다고 볼 수 있다. 발행지별로 분석한 결과는 국내 디자인학분야 연구자들이 국내문헌을 해외문헌보다 2.5배정도 많이 이용한 것으로 국내문헌에 많이 의존하는 것으로 분석되었다. 이것은 해외문헌을 국내문헌보다 2배정도 많이 이용한 것으로 분석된 사회과학분야의 선행연구와 비교할 때 디자인학분야에서는 정반대의 현상을 보이는 것이나 4배정도 국내문헌을 많이 이용한 것으로 분석된 미술분야의 선행연구와는 유사한 결과를 나타내는 것이다. 디자인학분야 문헌의 반감기는 5.75년이었으며, 자료형태별 반감기는 단행본(6.64년), 논문(5.97년), 학술잡지기사 (4.55년), 기타(3.73년), 보고서(3.41년) 순으로 분석되었고, 발행지별 반감기는 해외문헌(9.1년), 국내문헌(5.1년)순으로 분석되었다. 또한 타주제와의 관계분석에 있어 경영학, 건축술, 공학 등과 긴밀한 관계를 맺고 있는 것으로 디자인학이 단순히 미를 추구하는 것이 아니라 산업경쟁력 증진의 도구로서 존재한다는 것을 알 수 있다.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.24-42
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• 1993

This study examines the obsolescence of library and information science literature published in Korea, analysing citations appeared in major periodicals of 1992. Periodicals, languages, and forms of cited literatures are analyzed to find the half-life and the annual aging factors of Korean library and information science literature and then synthesized.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.97-115
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• 2011

A large and reliable citation database is necessary to identify and analyze citation behavior of Korean researchers in science and technology. Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) built the Korea Science Citation Database (KSCD), and have provided Korea Science Citation Index (KSCI) and Korea Journal Citation Reports (KJCR) services. In this article, citing behavior of Korean scientists on Korean journals was examined by using the KSCD that covers 459 Korean core journals. This research dealt with (1) statistical numeric information of journals in KSCD, (2) analysis of document types cited, (3) ratio of domestic to international documents cited and ratio of citing different disciplines, (4) analysis on immediacy index, peak time, and half-life of cited documents, and (5) analysis on impact of journals based on KJCR citation indicators. From this research, we could find the immediacy citation rate (average 2.36%), peak-time (average 1.7 years) and half-life (average 5.2 years) of cited journals in Korea. We also found that the average journal self-citation rate is more than 50% in every field. In sum, citing behavior of Korean scientists on Korean journals was comprehensively identified from this research.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.20 no.4 s.50
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• pp.1-21
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to analysis the types of cited materials dependence ratio of foreign information of researchers, and half-life of some cited analysis, Journal articles from four science & technology fields-mechanical, architectural, chemical, electrical-are selected, and the literatures cited by those journal articles are analysed in terms of resource types, languages, publication year of cited analysis. In result, it was found that the order of frequency of citation is scholarly journal, monograph, Proceeding, technical report. And dependence ratio of foreign information of researchers was most higher in the chemical field. Also, it was found that half-life of mechanical is 6.50, that of architectural is 5.45, that of chemical is 9.65, that of electrical is 5.60

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.377-395
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• 2008

This article aims to help decide until when a library has to hold journal volumes for user efficiency by measuring the value of academic journals to find the frequency of journal use over the elapsed time based on the half-life index-number of literature obsolescence by Burton & Kebler. Four general subjects categories in science was analyzed. (4 detailed subjects in mathematics, 12 in physics, 12 in chemistry, 14 in technology was selected.) As a result, citation ages are $20{\sim}29$ years in mathematics, $8{\sim}11$ in physics, chemistry, and technology. Average half-life indexes are 11.22 year in mathematics, 7.5 in physics, 8.4 in chemistry, and 8.88 in technology.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.1-24
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• 2005

This study is aimed at investigating if there were the differences on citing behavior of researchers among different fields of engineering, in terms of five items, such as types of resources cited, the average number of documents cited, the demand of current documents, languages used in cited documents, and the life decrease phenomena of information. 29,160 cited references in 2,333 articles from 4 major selected journals, published in the year of 1999, 2001, and 2003 were analyzed. The result of this study shows that there were the differences on citing behavior of researchers among different fields of engineering on all 5 items. And also, some suggestions were given the priority of library collection and shelf arrangement for the library.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.22-50
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• 1985

본(本) 연구(硏究)는 정보이용가치(情報利用價値)의 반감기(半減期)가 (1)그 정보(情報)를 이용(利用)하는 지역(地域)에 따라 차이(差異)가 있으며, (2)같은 지역(地域)에서는 이용자(利用者) 대부분(大部分)의 개인적 유학지(留學地), 언어(言語) 등 배경으로 형성된 지역별(地域別) 친소(親疏)관계에 따라 그 정보(情報)의 생산지(生産地)에 따른 차이(差異)가 있을 것이라는 가설(假說)을 입증(立證)하기 위하여 계획, 수행되었다. 이 가설(假說)을 입증(立證)하기 위하여 구체적(具體的)으로 우리나라 경제학자(經濟學者)들이 연구성과(硏究成果)를 발표(發表)하고 있는 3종(種)의 주요(主要) 국내(國內) 경제학전문지(經濟學專門誌), 즉, $\ulcorner$경제논집(經濟論集)$\lrcorner$, $\ulcorner$한국개발연구(韓國開發硏究)$\lrcorner$ 및 $\ulcorner$경제학연구(經濟學硏究)$\lrcorner$를 조사대상지(調査對象誌)로 선정(選定)하고, 그 속에 게재된 논문(論文)들이 인용(引用)하고 있는 문헌(文獻)들을 처리(處理)하며, (1)경제학문헌(經濟學文獻)의 형태별(形態別), 생산지별(生産地別) 반감기(半減期)를 측정(測定)하고, (2)그렇게 측정(測定)된 반감기(半減期)를 다른 나라에서 측정(測定)되어 이미 발표(發表)되어 있는 경제학문헌(經濟學文獻) 반감기(半減期)와 비교(比較)하였다.