| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 圖書資訊與檔案學研究所 === 95 === The main purpose of this study is to explore the scholarly productivity of 12 universities in Taiwan from 1975 to 2006 based on the theoretical perspectives of the bibliometrics, such as productivity of academic discipline, productivity of school, productivity of department, and the growth of literature. The distributions of institution productivity were examined using the Lotka’s, Price and 80/20 Laws. A total of 130018 bibliographic records were retrieved from the SCIE, SSCI, and A&HCI databases.
The results of this study revealed that the productivity of institution in Taiwan existed uneven ordinarily, mostly concentrated in National Taiwan University. In scientific field, the most productive academic discipline was Electronics and Electrical Engineering. In social scientific field, the most productive academic discipline was Management. However, the results of this study also showed that coauthorship was major research model. Furthermore, the examination of Lotka’s law was found to be inapplicable. The KS Test is also utilized to test the invalidity of observed distributions. Price’s square root law and 80/20 law were found to be inapplicable to the distribution of institution productivity. The reason was the number of high productivity institutions was more then the number of low productivity institutions. Finally, the growth of literature in 12 universities had been identified. It was demonstrated that the growth of literature was fitted by linear, exponential, and logistic models. Moreover, the overall growth rate is in a vigorously up-growing trend. Nearly 30 years, the mainstream of research was electronics and electrical engineering and management.
The results of this study may apply the overview of the scholarly productivity based on 12 universities in Taiwan from 1975 to 2006 and be the background knowledge for evaluation of high education, in order to understand what difference among different academic disciplines.
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