从引文分析看图书馆学的学科特性

Approaching the Characteristics of Library Science Through Citations Analysis

本文通过对美国24种主要图书馆学期刊1972-1996年间引文和被引用情况的分析研究,得出结论:无论从引文量还是被引文量来看,图书馆学都明显地表现为一门技术性和应用性占居主导地位、研究视野相对狭小、理论体系尚有待进一步完善、对外辐射能力相对较弱的学科。在未来的世纪里,图书馆学走向成熟的关键是它必须使自己逐步具有更多的“硬”科学的特性。

Through the analysis of24 major American periodicals on library science published between 1972 and 1996,this paper,from the angles of the quantifies of both the citations and the cited,draws the conclusion that library science apparently proves to be mainly a technical and practical academic subject that has a relativdy limited scope d research,an imperfect theoretical system,and a relatively poor application to other subjcets.So the key for the full development of library science is that it must gradually possess more features of the‘hard’sciences.