2024  VOLUME 4  ISSUE 1

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Comparative study of the disciplinary status of Chinese and international information science from the perspective of disciplinary kinetic energy

AUTHOR

Changling Li, Hao Wang, Weijie Xu, Guoyang Rong, Kun Luan, Zhihui Zhai, Haocheng Li, Qinghua Wang

ABSTRACT

This study aims to identify other disciplines that are mainly influenced by Chinese and International Information Science, evaluate their status and influence in the academic system, and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of Chinese characteristic Information Science. It will be helpful to promote the integration of internationalization and localization of Information Science, and also help research enhancing the international discourse power of Information Science with Chinese characteristics. Based on the theory of disciplinary kinetic energy, we regard the interdisciplinary citation of Information Science papers as a driving force to promote the progress of other disciplines. So we constructed a disciplinary influence measurement model from topic output, citation rate and citation velocity, and measured the influence of Chinese and International Information Science on different disciplines from 2017 to 2021, respectively. The empirical research suggested that the disciplinary status of Chinese Information Science is slightly lower than that of International Information Science, which is mainly reflected in the lack of topic diversity, low citation rate, and low timeliness of citation. Chinese and International Information Science have cooperated closely with Management Science and Computer Science. Compared with International Information Science, Chinese Information Science has unique advantages in influencing Economics, Journalism & Communication. However, there is still room for improvement in cooperation with disciplines such as Environmental Science, Health Management, Electronic Information, etc.

KEYWORDS

Disciplinary kinetic energy; Information Science; Disciplinary influence; Comparison of Chinese and International Information Science; Disciplinary status

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