Knowledge Mapping Analysis of Information Behavior Research
Yuwei Sun · Information Sciences · 2012
A total of 1303 papers published between 1975 and 2011 are retrieved from Web of Science with the topic search of information behavior,Using CitespaceⅡ,the relative data about cited papers and keywords have been processed,and we find that information behavior is a inter-disciplinary domain,mainly involves LIS,computer science,psychology science.With the analysis of core journal,11 significant information sources are found.Through displaying high influence authors and their representative papers on Knowledge mapping,we find some important theories and models which represent the knowledge foundations in information behavior research,and these theories also lay a good foundation for cognition of information science.Through burst detection and keywords clustering,it shows research hotspots and frontiers of information behavior.