The Network Pattern of Journal Knowledge Transfer in Library and Information Science in China

Rong, Zhao; Wu, Shengnan

doi:10.5771/0943-7444-2014-4-276

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“…Generally considered as the indictor of knowledge flow, citations are often adopted to examine patterns of dynamic disciplinary knowledge production and diffusion (Cronin & Meho, ; Kiss, Broom, Craze, & Rafols, ; Levitt, Thelwall, & Oppenheim, ; Yan & Yu, ; Zhao & Wu, ). Using citation analysis, studies have found that scientific works in one discipline tended to cite publications from adjacent disciplines (van Leeuwen & Tijssen, ) and citations to publications of their own discipline occurred sooner than citations to papers in other disciplines (Rinia, Van Leeuwen, Bruins, Van Vuren, & Van Raan, ).…”

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“…Using citation analysis, studies have found that scientific works in one discipline tended to cite publications from adjacent disciplines (van Leeuwen & Tijssen, ) and citations to publications of their own discipline occurred sooner than citations to papers in other disciplines (Rinia, Van Leeuwen, Bruins, Van Vuren, & Van Raan, ). When looking at specific areas of research, it is found that a few library and information science journals heavily cited communication science journals (Borgman & Rice, ) and journal knowledge flows in library and information science is frequent (Zhao & Wu, ). Similarly, Leydesdorff and Probst () revealed that communication science journals have a strong connection with political science and social psychology journals.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Measuring the diffusion of an innovation: A citation analysis

Zhai

Ding

Fang

2017

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Innovations transform our research traditions and become the driving force to advance individual, group, and social creativity. Meanwhile, interdisciplinary research is increasingly being promoted as a route to advance the complex challenges we face as a society. In this paper, we use Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) citation as a proxy context for the diffusion of an innovation. With an analysis of topic evolution, we divide the diffusion process into five stages: testing and evaluation, implementation, improvement, extending, and fading. Through a correlation analysis of topic and subject, we show the application of LDA in different subjects. We also reveal the cross-boundary diffusion between different subjects based on the analysis of the interdisciplinary studies. The results show that as LDA is transferred into different areas, the adoption of each subject is relatively adjacent to those with similar research interests. Our findings further support researchers' understanding of the impact formation of innovation.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Measuring the diffusion of an innovation: A citation analysis

Zhai

Ding

Fang

2017

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“…In addition to four blocks (i.e., macroscopic management and policy, technology management, system engineering, and management science) being generalized, this study has also investigated the evolutional change of four blocks and their member journals. Zhao and Wu (2014) employed structural equivalence to classify 16 LIS journals selected from CSSCI into four blocks in 2003-2007 and 2008-2012, respectively, as follows: a core block, a strong edge block, a weak edge block and a periphery block. In addition to examining the evolutional change over two periods, the core-periphery structure was also identified in this study.…”

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Structural equivalence in a library and information science journal network in Taiwan

Chen

2019

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This study aimed to examine the hidden structures and patterns among Chinese-language library and information science (CLIS) journals in Taiwan according to structural equivalence of social network analysis. Thirteen CLIS journals and 3,150 articles published between 2001 and 2014 were selected as subject and a 13x13 matrix was aggregated for structural equivalence analysis. The matrix was reduced into 6x6 blocks, and their block matrices and image diagrams were created based on results of structural equivalence analysis. The six blocks (i.e., general LIS I and II, core LIS I and II, interdisciplinary and residual) were used to examine the journal positions, network images and core-peripheral structure in the network. The block structure of the CLIS journal network shows both stability and change through the two individual periods of seven years (i.e., 2001-2007 and 2008-2014). The structural equivalence based results provide valuable alternative publication outlets for paper re-submission for scholars when a paper has been rejected. Such result is useful for journal editors to gain an image of which journals are competitive rivals in terms of journal-to-journal citation network. The core-periphery structure is roughly supported by this study both for the overall fourteen years and during two individual periods.

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“…At the journal level, it is found that knowledge flows in library and information science are frequent (Zhao & Wu, 2014) and a few library and information science journals heavily cited communication science journals (Borgman & Rice, 1992). Because paper citations can be aggregated into several higher levels, studies have explored journal-, institution-, and field-level knowledge flows via journal citations, institution citations, and field citations.…”

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Disciplinary knowledge production and diffusion in science

Yan

2015

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This study examines patterns of dynamic disciplinary knowledge production and diffusion. It uses a citation data set of Scopus-indexed journals and proceedings. The journal-level citation data set is aggregated into 27 subject areas and these subjects are selected as the unit of analysis. A 3-step approach is employed: the first step examines disciplines' citation characteristics through scientific trading dimensions; the second step analyzes citation flows between pairs of disciplines; and the third step uses egocentric citation networks to assess individual disciplines' citation flow diversity through Shannon entropy. The results show that measured by scientific impact, the subjects of Chemical Engineering, Energy, and Environmental Science have the fastest growth. Furthermore, most subjects are carrying out more diversified knowledge trading practices by importing higher volumes of knowledge from a greater number of subjects. The study also finds that the growth rates of disciplinary citations align with the growth rates of global research and development (R&D) expenditures, thus providing evidence to support the impact of R&D expenditures on knowledge production.

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The Network Pattern of Journal Knowledge Transfer in Library and Information Science in China

Abstract: She teaches knowledge management at the School of Information Management of Wuhan. Her research interests are knowledge management, informetrics and scientific evaluation.

Cited by 8 publications

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Measuring the diffusion of an innovation: A citation analysis

Measuring the diffusion of an innovation: A citation analysis

Structural equivalence in a library and information science journal network in Taiwan

Disciplinary knowledge production and diffusion in science

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