• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.11-36
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• 2011

Since the 1990s, informetrics has grown in popularity among information scientists. Today it is a general discipline that comprises all kinds of metrics, including bibliometrics and scientometrics. To illustrate the dynamic progress of this field, this study aims to identify the structure and infrastructure of the informetrics literature using statistical and profiling methods. Informetrics literature was obtained from the Web of Knowledge for the years 2001-2010. The selected articles contain least one of these keywords: informetrics', bibliometrics', scientometrics', webometrics', and citation analysis.' Noteworthy publication patterns of major countries were identified by a statistical method. Intellectual structure analysis shows major research areas, authors, and journals.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.31-52
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• 1999

This paper is done by studying two experimental cases which utilize the stochastic theory of Markov Chains, which is used for forecasting the future and by analyzing recent trend of studies. Since the study of Markov Chains is not applied to the Informetrics to a high degree in Korea. It is also proposed that there is a necessity for further study on Markov Chains and its activation.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.17-34
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• 2022

This informetrics study was conducted to find out the distribution of articles and authors that published in African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Studies [AJLAIS]) from 2009 to 2018; considering the year-wise growth of research articles; authorship pattern and collaboration ratio; subject and geographical distributions of authors; and authors' productivity level. A descriptive informetrics research design was adopted. Quota sampling technique was used to select all the articles published within the ten-year period. Data collected through a self-designed checklist was analyzed using frequency count and percentage. The findings revealed that 141 articles, contributed by 266 authors were published by AJLAIS during the period. An annual average growth of 1.20% was recorded. Overall year-wise authorship pattern revealed that majority of articles (62.41%) published in AJLAIS were multiple authored. Also, articles on Informetrics and ICT dominated the journal. Some subject areas not covered were identified such as: indexing and serial collections management. Average collaborative index across the 10-year period for the journal was 0.62. South Africa and Nigeria were the two major prolific contributors to AJLAIS, just as evidence-based research papers of survey type (65.25%) were the most common to the journal. There should be increased numbers of articles in each edition over the coming years, and awareness should be created by the publishers to familiarize the researchers with the publishing requirements of the journal. Also, LIS researchers should concentrate more on areas usually left untouched by previous studies. The study is original as no other similar study was found on publication pattern of articles in AJLAIS covering a ten year period of 2009-2018. The findings of the study will also serve as a feedback mechanism for the Publisher of the Journal and LIS researchers on how to improve the journal and LIS research in general.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.179-191
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• 2013

Since information scientists have begun trying to quantify significant research trends in scientific publications, '-metrics' research such as 'bibliometrics', 'scientometrics', 'informetrics', 'webometrics', and 'citation analysis' have been identified as crucial areas of information science. To illustrate the dynamic research activities in these areas, this study investigated the major contributors of '-metrics' research for the last decade at three levels: nations, institutions, and documents. '-metrics' literature of this study was obtained from the Science Citation Index for the years 2001-2011. In this analysis, we used Pathfinder network, PNNC algorithm, PageRank and several indicators based on h-index. In terms of international collaborations, USA and England were identified as major countries. At the institutional level, Katholieke University, Leuven and the University of Amsterdam in Europe and Indiana University and the Office of Naval Research in the USA have led co-research projects in informetrics areas. At the document level, Hirsch's h-index paper and Ingwersen's web impact factor paper were identified as the most influential work by two methods: PageRank and single paper h-index.

• Journal of Scientific & Technological Knowledge Infrastructure
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• s.13
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• pp.85-94
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• 2004

최근 정보와 지식의 폭발적인 증가, 인터넷과 IT 기술의 발달로 어떻게 하면 핵심적인 정보를 찾아내고 그러한 지식이 어떻게 발전할 것인지에 대한 연구의 일환으로 semantic web, DB mining 등의 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 이를 위해서 ontology 등 지식의 구조화작업 등이 큰 관심을 끌고 있다. 또 이러한 지식을 디지털 화하고 계량화해서 새로운 지식을 창출하는 방법들인 informatics, informetrics 등의 분야도 급속히 관심을 끌고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 1996.08a
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• pp.101-104
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• 1996

학문은 다양한 이론적 배경을 토대로 시대적 환경에 적응하여 발전한다. 즉, 서로의 영역을 공유하면서 새로운 이론을 창출하고 실제로 이를 응용하고 있는 것이다. 계량서지학, 계량과학학, 문헌과학학등으로 일컫고 있는 계량정보학은 문헌의 분석을 위해 수량학적 방법으로 적용하여 연구하는 학문으로, 활발히 연구되어 응용되고있는 분야는 텍스트검색시스템, OPACs, 비디오텍스시스템, 하이퍼텍스트시스템, CD-ROM, 온라인 정보서비스, 전자출판, 전자우편, 케이블 TV 등의 전자정보서비스 분야이다. 본 연구에서는 계량정보학의 사적변천과 연구영역, 그 응용과 실제를 고찰하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.209-227
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• 2012

This study intends to develop R&D policy agendas that are required to prepare a smart library/smart society in Korea libraries. To the end, methodology was established to explore policy issues and agenda for library R&D, and the preliminary agendas were drawn from informetrics, subject analysis, and brainstorming techniques. Then, the preliminary agendas were revised through supplementary works, such as the comprehensive investigation into research papers and the recent research projects. Based on the results, evaluation for the R&D agendas was performed. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method was used as a structured technique for analyzing the importance and the priority of the agendas. This study can be used for improving and/or expanding quality of information services in Korean libraries and for exploring the requirements to play a crucial role in the future society.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.241-257
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• 2008

This study describes the growth, contribution and impact of research carried out by University of Mysore scientists in science and technology. It indicates the patterns of communications of university scientists and studies the extent of concentration and scattering of their research output in different journals. It also analyses the strong and weak areas of university research, their growth rate and impact in terms of average citations received. It also studies the output and impact of research under different existing subject departments of the university and analyses the international collaborative share of research output at the overall level as well as across various subjects, indicating also the major countries involved in international collaboration. It describes the share and characteristics of select high cited papers and the top productive authors.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.16-32
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• 2014

As Topic Modeling has been applied in increasingly various domains, the difficulty in naming and characterizing topics also has been recognized more. This study, therefore, explores an approach of combining text mining with network analysis in a multi-step approach. The concept of synchronization was applied to re-assign the top author keywords in more than one topic category, in order to improve the visibility of the topic-author keyword network, and to increase the topical cohesion in each topic. The suggested approach was applied using 16,548 articles with 2,881 unique author keywords in construction and building engineering indexed by KSCI. As a result, it was revealed that the combined approach could improve both the visibility of the topic-author keyword map and topical cohesion in most of the detected topic categories. There should be more cases of applying the approach in various domains for generalization and advancement of the approach. Also, more sophisticated evaluation methods should also be necessary to develop the suggested approach.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.129-155
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• 2010

In recent years, the changes in information technology have been so dramatic and the rate of changes has increased so much that information science research rigorously evolves with the passage of time and proliferates in diverging research directions dynamically. The aims of this study are to provide a global overview of research trends in information science and to trace its changes in the main topics over time. The study examined the topics of research articles published in JASIST between 1985 and 2009 and identified its changes during five 5 year periods. The study found that the most productive area has consistently been 'Information Retrieval', followed by 'Informetrics', 'Information Use and Users', 'Network and Technology', and 'Publishing and Services'. Information retrieval is a predominant core area in Information Science covering computer-based handling of multimedia information, employment of new semantic methods from other disciplines, and mass information handling on virtual environments. Currently Informetric studies shift from finding existing phenomena to seeking valuable descriptive results and researchers of information use have concentrated especially on information-seeking aspects, so adding greater sophistication to the relatively simple approach taken in information retrieval.