A Study for Research Area of Library and Information Science by Network Text Analysis

In this study, Network Text Analysis was performed on 1,752 articles which had been published in recent 7 years and drew the subject concept distribution and their relations in Library and Information Science research areas. Furthermore, for analyzing more recent trends and changing aspects, this study performed secondary analysis based on 482 articles published in recent 2 years. Results show that "public library", and "academic library" concepts were most frequently studied in the field and "evaluation", "education", and "web" concepts showed the highest-degree centrality during the recent 7 years. In the result of recent two years analysis, "web", and "classification" concepts showed high frequency and "user", and "public library" showed an improvement in high degree centrality.