Analysis of the Novelty and Contribution of Core Knowledge Elements and Their Combinations in the Field of Library Science in China
This article takes six core journals in library science as the data source,extracts representative papers published in them from 2012 to 2021,analyzes the expression characteristics of research questions and research methods in the papers,constructs rules for extracting questions and methods,and establishes a knowledge element dictionary in the discipline field.Then,it extracts the research questions and method topics of all papers published in the sample journals from 2019 to 2021,establishes the co-occurrence relationship between questions,methods and their combinations through programming,and measures and analyzes the relationship between the novelty and contribution of questions,methods,and their combinations.Finally,it extracts relevant papers published in the sample journals from 2022 to October 2023,calculates and measures the relationship between the novelty and contribution of research questions,research methods,and their combinations in the field of library science from 2019 to 2021,and explores the evolution and development of various types of questions,methods,and their combinations.The study found that the method of analyzing from the perspective of knowledge elements of questions,methods,and their combinations can effectively discover new problems,new methods,old problems,old methods,and various combinations of questions and methods in the discipline field;the evolution and development of various types of questions,methods and their combinations provide a good background knowledge for analyzing the research trend in the discipline field.