图书馆学情报学论文引文的比较与分析

The Comparative Analysis of Citation between Articles on Library and Information Sciences

图书馆学与情报学都是以文献为基础,研究如何搜集、组织、存取、检索和传播文献情报规律的学科。这两个学科能长期并存并不断发展,必然有着各自的特点和优势。在这两个学科的比较研究中,大都采用定性描述的办法。本文试图在同一时间内,用引文分析方法,来探索当前两学科在研究中的异同点和侧重点,以供同行在图书馆学、情报学研究时参考。

Taking 3,893 citations of 568 articles from 6 periodicals,such as the Bulletin of China Society ofLibrary Science and the Information Science Journal of 1987-1988 as the objects for analysts,the ar-ticle makes a comparative study of the similarities and differences between library and information sci-ences.The offspring of this study is as follows:The average amount of citations of library science isless than that of information science(5.7:7.4);What the former cites from(41.3%)is more thanthat of the latter(32.5%),but those cited from periodicals by the former(42.7%)are less than thoseof the latter(61.9%);As to the professional periodicals cited from,there are no authoritative onescited by the former,while the latter,however,has its authoritative journals such as the InformationScience;With regard to the disciplines of learning,except for over 65% of the noumenon disciplines,those of social sciences cited by the former(25.4%)are more than those cited by the latter(14.3%),while those of natural Sciences cited by the latter(9.5%)are more than those cited by the former(2.5%);in respect to the branches of the noumenon disciplines cited,the former shows its conventionali-ty and the latter,as such,shows its originality;The maximun number of years for document citationsof both is the articles'second publication year,the half-life of documents of the former is 3.9 yearsand the latter,3. 8 years;The citations of the former from Chinese documents(91.8%)are morethan those of the latter(86.1%),yet its citations from Western documents(5.7%)are less thanthose of the latter(11.7%).8 tables.7 references.