国际数字人文研究中的跨学科知识扩散探析

An Exploratory Analysis on the Interdisciplinary Knowledge Diffusionin the International Studies for Digital Humanities

数字人文作为一个新兴的跨学科研究领域,正受到许多学科的高度关注。本研究旨在探析国际数字人文研究的跨学科知识扩散趋势,以Web of Science核心数据集为数据来源,通过学科聚合性、学科多样性、学科地位三个维度的四个指标——网络中介中心势、网络密度、网络核心度、DIV指标——进行跨学科特征分析,使用国际数字人文研究中被引次数≥1的目标文献及其施引文献进行知识扩散研究,并基于桑基图进行可视化展示。研究表明:国际数字人文研究的跨学科性越来越强,艺术与人文学科、工程学等学科近年在国际数字人文研究中的地位渐趋重要,而图书情报学等初始相关学科的核心度则呈下降趋势。国际数字人文研究网络核心度的下降有利于数字人文与其他学科建立更多的联系,从而更好地吸收其他学科知识、扩大研究范围。在知识扩散过程中,计算机科学、图书情报学两个学科的知识流动较为频繁,语言学领域的论文越来越受到其他学科的广泛关注。

Digital humanities,as an emerging interdisciplinary research field,has received great attention from many disciplines.The interdisciplinary knowledge diffusion of digital humanities is explored in this article.Using dataset from Web of Science,we conduct interdisciplinary analysis through the betweenness centralization,network density,network coreness,and DIV indicator.For knowledge diffusion,we use papers cited at least once and their citing papers for analysis,and then we use the Sankey diagram for visualization.The results show that interdisciplinarity has become stronger and stronger in the field of international digital humanities,where the disciplines such as arts&humanities,engineering have occupied an important position.However,the network coreness of information science&library science has shown a downward trend.The decline of the network coreness in the field of digital humanities is conducive to establishing more connections between digital humanities and new disciplines,to absorb other knowledge and expand the scope better.In the process of knowledge diffusion,knowledge flows in the two disciplines of computer science,information&library science are relatively frequent,while the papers in the field of linguistics have received extensive attention from other disciplines.