『서지학연구』의 연구동향 분석

Abstract

This study conducts the investigation and analysis of the bibliography research trend, based on the academic journal Bibliography Research. For this purpose, the number of articles and the articles of single or joint authorship published for the past three decades covering 1986 to 2015, the number of authors, core authors, their profiles and organizations of the authors, change in their majors and subject areas of the past 10 years covering 2006 to 2015 were investigated and analyzed. Furthermore, the results of this study were analyzed through comparison with the previous studies of Bibliography Research conducted in 1992, 1997 and 2002 in the areas of previous studies of research trend, articles of co-authorship, occupations, service of affiliation with the organizations, their majors and research subject area. As a result, it was found out that those of different majors as well as professors at universities are conducting researches in mainly general and applied areas or physical bibliography these days, while professors of bibliography major at universities conducted researches in the area of mainly physical bibliography and systematical bibliography with single authorship in the past. The phenomena of co-authorship and researches conducted jointly by research institutes, researchers of various information centers, and graduate students are on the increase. And diversification of authors’ major fields and advancement into integrative researches in the field of bibliography was found out, albeit not significantly.