Citation Analysis for Literature Researches in Taiwan

• Main Author: Kuang-Hua Chen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: National Taiwan University 2009-12-01
• Series: Journal of Library and Information Studies
• Subjects: citation analysis; informetrics; literature research
• Online Access: https://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/files/journal/j29-1.pdf
• ISSN: 1606-7509; 1606-7509

This study investigates Literature Researches in Taiwan in a viewpoint of outside researcher. The methodology of Informetrics will be used to analyze citations of Chinese Literature and Foreign Literature’s research papers which had been published in Taiwan from 1996 to 2006. The citation types, citation disciplines, citation languages and citing half-life are examined. On average, the number of citations of each research paper of Foreign Literature is 22.72; the number of Chinese Literature is 18.66. The self-citation rate of Chinese Literature is 61.25%; the rate for Foreign Literature is 13.90%. Research papers on Chinese Literature have great interaction with General Literature, Philosophy, and History, but Foreign Literature papers have great interaction with Social Science. The major citation types of both Chinese Literature and Foreign Literature are “Book”. The written language of cited works is English for Foreign Literature; the written language of cited works is Chinese for Chinese Literature. The citing half-life of Chinese Literature is 19.29 years and that of Foreign Literature is 11.96 years. The citations of Chinese Literature have much larger time span and then have comparatively long influences. In general, with comparison to researches on Foreign Literature, Chinese Literature in Taiwan is relatively closed and independent and has little interaction with other disciplines except Philosophy, History and itself. (Article content in Chinese with English abstract)