台灣人文地理學的研究進程：知識生產特性與學科進步性之探討

THE ANATOMY OF RECENT HUMAN GEOGRAPHY STUDIES IN TAIWAN: CHARACTERISTICS AND PROGRESSIVENESS OF GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION

本文以文獻目錄計量分析（bibliometric analysis）的方法，分析1996年至2000年國內主要地理學刊所刊登的學術論文、以及各大專院校的碩博士論文，作為瞭解國內人文地理學研究進展的基礎。研究重點在分析這些學術生產（i.e.地理知識），於研究主題、研究方法與資料來源的分佈狀況，期望能更清晰與客觀地解析國內人文地理學的研究素材與成果，並瞭解國內地理人才庫的專長特性，以勾勒國內人文地理學的發展圖像，及學科發展的核心課題。本文首先以當代英美學界人文地理學的發展為引，指出地理學發展的多元性與多樣性，及此特性對於學科發展進程的影響；接下來分析近期台灣人文地理學研究的特性，包括地理學術人才、研究專長及學術研究成果的分析討論；最後指出人文地理學研究主題、研究方法與資料運用的拓展問題，必須和地理學研究的進步性與地理傳統的創造一起思考，才能回應提振學科發展的根本課題，而這應是國內地理社群的共同任務。

This paper aims to analyze recent development of human geography researches in Taiwan by using bibliometric analysis. The bibliography is composed of papers published in major geographical journals as well as the master theses and PhD dissertations completed during 1996-2000. The paper begins at characterizing the development of contemporary human geography in Anglo-American world to address the diversified nature of geographical studies and its relationship to the progress of geographical discipline. It comes with analyzing human resources of the geographical community in Taiwan in terms of the distribution of specialties claimed by those geographers worked in academic institutions, such as colleges, universities, and research institutes. It follows by examining the spectrum of research topics in human geography and their corresponding methods and data as an echo to the main theme of this paper. At the last part, this paper urges the geographical community taking the reflection of progressiveness and traditions as a collective mission in guarding the development of human geography in Taiwan.