Telling the Future of Information Sciences : Co-Word Analysis of Keywords in Scientific Literature Produced at the Department of Information Sciences in Zagreb

Bosanac, Siniša and Matešić, Marija and Tolić, Nino. (2009). Telling the Future of Information Sciences : Co-Word Analysis of Keywords in Scientific Literature Produced at the Department of Information Sciences in Zagreb. In: 2nd International Conference “The Future of Information Sciences: INFuture2009 – Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing”, 4-6 November 2009, Zagreb, Croatia.

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Abstract

Research fields dealing with information from various perspectives have been rapidly developing throughout the last few decades. Information science is one of the most prominent among them. The aim of this article was to investigate how concepts related to information sciences in Croatia change over time, and by doing this to show the development of the field. For this purpose, co-word analysis has been used. Using this method, the most important concepts of information sciences that appeared in the 14-year period 1995-2009 were identified, and the results have been visualized. The concepts are visualized in the form of a network along with their respective clusters for the whole time frame, and also separately for two seven-year periods, 1995-2002 and 2002-2009. The analysis has shown concepts centered on education and community to be the most prominent and stable. New concepts in the network appear independently, as a replacement for similar concepts, or as a result of braking down of general concepts into more specific ones. Results presented in this paper are of purely quantitative nature and, if combined with observations of relevant external factors, can serve as a basis for a study of trends in scientific production, and ultimately, their prediction.

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