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Acknowledgement Types and Bibliometric Characteristics of Library and Information Science Journal Articles

문헌정보학 학술지 논문의 사사표기 유형 구분과 계량서지적 특성 연구

  • 장연미 (명지대학교 문헌정보학과) ;
  • 이재윤 (명지대학교 문헌정보학과)
  • Received : 2024.02.17
  • Accepted : 2024.02.29
  • Published : 2024.03.30
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Abstract

In this study, we aimed to identify the types of acknowledgments in Korean LIS journal articles and to find out whether there are differences in the bibliometric characteristics of journal articles based on the types of acknowledgments. For the analysis, the acknowledgments, references, and citation counts of 2,143 articles published in four representative journals in the field of library and information science in Korea for nine years from 2013 to 2021 were obtained as data. We analyzed the contents of 1,433 acknowledgments in 1,311 articles (61.2% of all articles) to divide them into types and then examined the bibliometric characteristics of each type of article. The acknowledgment types were broadly divided into the 'ethics' type (avoiding duplicate publication) and 'thanks' type, which were further subdivided into 9 and 10 types, respectively. We examined the number of references, recency of references, and citations as bibliometric characteristics, and found that all of these characteristics differed between the types of acknowledgements.

이 연구에서는 국내 문헌정보학 학술지 논문의 사사표기 유형을 파악하고, 유형에 따라 학술지 논문의 계량서지적 특성에 차이가 있는지를 알아보고자 하였다. 분석을 위해서 국내 문헌정보학 분야 대표 학술지 4종에 2013년부터 2021년까지 9년간 게재된 논문 2,143편의 사사표기와 참고문헌, 인용횟수를 데이터로 확보하였다. 전체 논문 중에서 61.2%인 1,311편에 실린 사사표기 1,433건의 내용을 분석하여 유형을 나눈 다음, 각 유형에 해당하는 논문의 계량서지적 특성을 살펴보았다. 사사표기 유형은 크게 '윤리(중복게재회피)'와 '감사' 유형으로 양분되었으며, 각각 9가지와 10가지로 세분할 수 있었다. 계량서지적 특성으로 참고문헌 수, 참고문헌의 최신성, 인용도를 살펴본 결과 모든 특성이 사사표기 유형별로 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다.

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