The recent trends of information organization research in Japan and Korea

Analysis of Reference Inquiries in the Field of Social Science in the Collaborative Reference Service Using the Co-Word Technique

“…The 'concept' in the co-word analysis is a synthesis of one or more words like the node of social network, and is like edge or link for connections between concepts. That is, that two or more concepts are discussed in one sentence means that they have a close relationship, and the union of such relationships forms semantic map which is the same as the network map in social network analysis (Cho 2013). Hence, for the co-word analysis, the word matrix that contains the information about the frequency of the words within difference texts, i.e., co-occurrence matrix between words has to be deducted, and this matrix is analysed like the adjacency matrix of social network analysis (Sim 2010).…”