Using a digital humanities technique , this study analyzes the bibliographic information of around 250,000 KCI humanities papers published between 2004 and 2019 in order to comprehend the knowledge structure of Korean humanities over the previous 15 y...
Using a digital humanities technique , this study analyzes the bibliographic information of around 250,000 KCI humanities papers published between 2004 and 2019 in order to comprehend the knowledge structure of Korean humanities over the previous 15 years. Bibliographic information used in the analysis includes text information such as the thesis's title, abstract, and keywords, citation information such as the number of citations and references, and demographic information such as the gender, age, and academic institution of the researcher who wrote the thesis. This study consists of four chapters: 1) Exploratory data analysis of KCI thesis bibliographic information and each researcher’s demographic and sociological information; ,2) research topic cluster analysis utilizing the structural topic model; and 3) research topography analysis utilizing co-citation analysis of references. 4) Policy suggestions for the future of Korean humanities based on three research outcomes.
In Study 1, I will use exploratory data analysis to analyze the number of papers published by year, the change in paper output over time in the reference list, and the generation and gender of researchers. In Study 2, topic changes are studied based on each thesis’s textual content and its meta-information. I study which study topics have risen and declined in popularity throughout time, as well as which topics will garner interest in the future. In Study 3, groups of publications are extracted based on their citation relationships utilizing simultaneous citation analysis of references, and key works that led to the study cluster are selected and analyzed by cluster. In conclusion, the structure of knowledge generation and diffusion in the Korean humanities over the past 15 years is disclosed based on the above four data analysis results, and the future of the Korean humanities is considered. In particular, the future path of Korean humanities and the agenda of open science and digital humanities are proposed.