Dissertation Information for Hejin Shin NAME: - Hejin Shin
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science
SCHOOL:
- University of Texas, Austin (USA) (1999)
ADVISORS: - Francis L. Miksa - E. Glynn Harmon
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Ronald E. Wyllys - Alosyius Ka-Lau Mok - Mina M. Dioun
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Research interactivity of cognitive science: A bibliometric analysis of interdisciplinarity
Abstract: This study attempts to understand the interdisciplinary dimensions of cognitive science by analyzing the overall research interactions among the contributing disciplines to cognitive science through citation analysis of its literature. Three approaches to achieve this purpose are used. First, citation patterns of six constituent disciplines represented in the journal Cognitive Science (anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, computer science, and neuroscience) are analyzed for the time period of 1977-1996. Second, based on a journal inter-citation network, research interactivity among the above disciplines is analyzed along with measures of relative journal importance. Third, clusters of journals based on co-citation similarity are formed and mapped to illustrate the structure of cognitive science literature.
The analysis reveals that psychology, computer science, and linguistics were the key contributory and reference disciplines in Cognitive Science from 1977 to 1996. While the initial dominance of computer science gave way to psychology, computer science always remained prominent. Anthropology, philosophy, and neuroscience remained marginal. Authors from the dominant disciplines of psychology and computer science have tended to look inwards, drawing heavily on their own respective disciplines; conversely, authors from the less dominant disciplines tended to look outside their home areas in their research.
The analysis of research interactivity in the journal citation network generally corroborated the above findings. Network analysis further revealed that the constituent disciplines progressed from internal modes of research interactivity to multidisciplinary research interactivity over time, and bonded together to form a stabilized platform of cognitive science. The latter made possible the designation and analysis of a key set of cognitive science journals. Co-citation patterns in general produced findings similar to the inter-citation patterns of journals.
The broad picture that emerges indicates that cognitive science has formed into a relatively mature, open, stable, diffuse, and dynamic system of interactive disciplines. But two dominant orientations or schools (one centered on the mind and brain, and the other on computational intelligence) continue to exist as side-by-side competitors and collaborators.
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