國外“區域學門”期刊的發展與知識互動－－文獻計量學取向的分析

A Bibliometric Research on the Journals of Regional Studies

本文以文獻計量學之引文分析法（Citation Analysis）為本，從國內「區域學門」的觀點出發，研究1990年至1999年SSCI資料庫中國外之相關期刊，分析期刊影響力、品質及期刊的群落，藉此描繪區域學門的八個學科在國外知識社群的發展。研究發現有助於瞭解國外相關領域在1990年代的發展，並可供國內學界參考。我們建立了包含336,07個觀察值的文獻資料庫，以期刊代表不同學科，並分析不同學科期刊之間的關係，藉以呈現各學科在知識地圖上的相對地位與特質。在操作程式方面，我們將知識互動的強度以不同期刊被某文章共同引用的數量關係代表，建立共引矩陣。我們將此共引矩陣透過多變量分析的技術，以相似性為指標將期刊分群，最後得到期刊分群與學科關係定位。將新的期刊分群與目前國內區域學門界定的學科內容作對照，我們亦提出一些初步的看法。此結果可供國科會人文處對國內區域學門長遠規劃的參考。

We conducted a citation analysis to study the knowledge spectrum of Regional Studies, a field defined by National Science Council, to measure the impact and quality of the journals in this field, and to identify the grouping of these journals and therefore the relationships of the subfields. Starting from 105 seeding journals recommended by scholars in this field, we proceeded to obtain the seeding reference articles from which we then extracted a total 336, 072 records of citations from the web of SSCI during 1990-1999. This data base allows us to compute the impact (total citations) and efficiency (average citations per article) of each journal. Sixty top journals for the eight subfields in Regional Studies are selected for co-citation and multidimensional scaling analyses. We hope our results and findings are useful for researchers in Taiwan to see the status of their interested journals or the development of their research areas in the international academic community.