摘要
本文以文献目录计量分析(bibliometric analysis)的方法；分析1996年至2000年国内主要地理学刊所刊登的学术论文、以及各大专院校的硕博士论文；作为了解圆内人文地理学研究进展的基础。研究重点在分析这些学术生产(i.e.地理知识) ；於研究主题、研究方法与资料来源的分布状况；期望能更清晰与客观地解析国内人文地理学的研究素材与成果；并了解国内地理人才库的专长特性；以勾勒国内人文地理学的发展图像；及学科发展的核心课题。本文首先以当代英美学界人文地理学的发展为引；指出地理学发展的多元性与多样性；及此特性对於学科发展进程的影响；接下来分析近期台湾人文地理学研究的特性；包括地理学术人才、研究专长及学术研究成果的分析讨论；最後指出人文地理学研究主题、研究方法与资料运用的拓展问题；必须和地理学研究的进步性与地理传统的创造一起思考；才能回应提振学科发展的根本课题； 而这应是国内地理社群的共同任务。
This paper aims to analyze recent development of human geography researches in Taiwan by using bibliometric analysis. The bibliography is composed of papers published in major geographical journals as well as the master theses and PhD dissertations completed during 1996-2000. The paper begins at characterizing the development of contemporary human geography in Anglo-American world to address the diversified nature of geographical studies and its relationship to the progress of geographical discipline. It comes with analyzing human resources of the geographical community in Taiwan in terms of the distribution of specialties claimed by those geographers worked in academic institutions, such as colleges, universities, and research institutes. It follows by examining the spectrum of research topics in human geography and their corresponding methods and data as an echo to the main theme of this paper. At the last paper, this paper urges the geographical community taking the reflection of progressiveness and traditions as a collective mission in guarding the development of human geography in Taiwan.
