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This study explores knowledge structures of science and technology disciplines using a cocitation analysis of journal subject categories with the publication data of a science & technology oriented university in Korea. References cited in the articles published by the faculty of the university were analyzed to produce MDS maps and network centralities. For the whole university research domain, six clusters were created including clusters of Biology related subjects, Medicine related subjects, Chemistry plus Engineering subjects, and multidisciplinary sciences plus other subjects of multidisciplinary nature. It was found that subjects of multidisciplinary nature and Biology related subjects function as central nodes in knowledge communication network in science and technology. Same analysis procedure was applied to two natural science disciplines and another two engineering disciplines to present knowledge structures of the departmental research domains.

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학문의 전문화와 학제성은 학문의 발전과 함께 이루어지며, 학제성을 규명하는 것은 학문의 좌표 설정에 있어서 중요하다. 본 연구는 연구자의 소속 학과와 연구 영역 간의 상관관계 분석을 통해서 학제성을 규명하는데 목적이 있다. 한국학술진흥재단에 등록된 63,578명의 연구자 소속 학과와 대분류 및 중분류 연구영역 간의 상관관계를 분석하였다. 이러한 상관관계 분석을 통해서, 대분류 연구영역 간에는 사회과학과 복합학, 의약학과 복합학, 자연과학과 의약학, 자연과학과 농수해양 간의 학제성을 찾아볼 수 있었다. 보다 구체적인 상관관계는 중분류 연구영역 단계와 소속 학과 간의 상관관계 분석을 통해 나타났다. 즉, 복합학과 사회과학은 다양한 연구영역이 서로 학제적 성격을 나타내며, 복합학과 의약학은 복합학 하위의 뇌과학 연구영역 때문인 것으로 분석되었다. 또한 자연과학과 의약학은 자연과학 내의 기타자연과학, 화학, 생물학에 기인한 것이며, 자연과학과 농수해양은 농수해양 내의 농학, 수산학, 식품과학 연구영역에 인한 것으로 나타났다.

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The purpose of this study is to identify interdisciplinarity among eight research areas based upon the correlations between researchers' department affiliations and research areas. More specifically, eight research areas and their sub-areas, 153 sub-areas with researchers' department affiliations were analyzed in terms of Pearson correlation analyses. The findings demonstrated that there was interdisciplinarity between Social Science and Multiple Science Areas, Social Science and Medical & Pharmaceutical Area, Natural Science and Medical & Pharmaceutical Area, and Medical & Pharmaceutical Area and Agricultural Science.

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Electronic publishing has influenced, and in some ways changed, information seeking, reading patterns and citation behaviours. This study collected the Cited Half-Lives, the indicator implies the life-span of scholarly journals, from JCR Social Science edition the before and after of the prevalence of electronic journals, and observed if there are some changes in these two periods. The analysis results of eight disciplines show that the average Cited Half-Lives increased in 2007 than in 1994 for seven disciplines except the demography. Especially in the four disciplines of economics, education, finance and sociology, the average Cited Half-Lives increased significantly. This results show that the concentration, researchers cite more recent articles and concentrate their citations on fewer ones, is lightening and the dispersion of citations is actually increasing. With the online availability of articles and journals the old online materials can be often accessed, used and cited more frequently, the more growth potential of Cited Half-Lives are made in a digital environment. Further research needs to investigate if the phenomenon will become more obvious in various disciplines after a few years.