The main purpose of this is to provide the guidance of practical use and give any additional information to set the lifetime of the library book collections, policy of scrap the old documents, and the general services using statistical half-life...
The main purpose of this is to provide the guidance of practical use and give any additional information to set the lifetime of the library book collections, policy of scrap the old documents, and the general services using statistical half-life period analysis according to the type of literatures, index term, core journal, and by published year. For the analysis, the classification of the reference on the published has been used in this study especially on Social Sciences including Business Administration, Economics, and Trades. The popular domestic journals used in this are ‘Korean Management Review’, ‘The Korean Economic Review’, and ‘Journal of Korea Trade’ for three years from 2005 to 2007 which are 540 articles and 22,147 cited literature.
The results of this study are as follows. First, total number of the authors is 940. Among this, there are 240 single author (25.5%) and 700 multiple authors (74.5%). Multiple authors consist of 428 two authors (45.5%), 216 three authors (23.0%), 56 four or more authors (6.0%). Two authors are the most popular and average of the number of authors is 1.7 per . Multiple authors rate (74.5%) is around three times higher than single author. Multiple authors are getting more and more than single author year after year and it reveals getting more collaborated their works. Affiliation of authors is 817 from university (87.0%), 60 from research institute (6.4%), 36 from company including bank (3.9%) and 6 from government (0.6%).It comes out mostly from university and that because of most of the research activity lead by professors.
Second, main topic classification of the documents and references are as follows. ① 447 of Economics including Business and Trades (83.0%), 21 of Laws (3.9%), 15 of Electrical Engineering (2.8%), 7 of Manufacturing (1.3%), 7 of Psychology (1.3%), 6 of Mathematics (1.1%), and 6 of Technology (1.1%) out of the 540 research documents. ② 14,989 of Economics (76.2%), 1,068 of Sociology (4.6%), 303 of Laws (1.5%), 298 of Electrical Engineering (1.5%), 203 of Biotechnology (1.0%) out of the 19,674 only for book and journal references. Dependency rate for other topics is 30.8 % for 'Korean Management Review', 24.1 % for 'The Korean Economic Review', 9.3 % for 'Journal of Korea Trade' which shows relatively high independent rate.
Third, results from the type of the literatures on 22,147 references are 14,139 journals (63.8%), 5,535 books (25.0%), 1,083 s (4.9%), 436 proceedings (2.0%), 320 internet (1.4%), 280 thesis (1.3%), and 354 others (1.6%) which shows journal is the dominant.
Fourth, descending order language dependency on references is English, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, German, French, and Spanish, respectively. Authors prefer to use English (16,371 references 74%) than Korean (5,278 references 24%) which is more than three times.
Fifth, results for the citation rate and popular journal list are 202 from 'Korean Management Review' (7.6%), 154 from 'Journal of Korea Trade' (5.8%), 95 from 'Korean Accounting Review' (3.6%), 76 from 'Korean International Business Review' (2.9%), and 72 each from 'Korean Marketing Review' and 'Korean Finance Review' (2.7%) for domestic journals. For international journals, 603 from Strategic Management Journal (5.2%), 413 from Academy of Management Journal (3.6%), 401 from Journal of Marketing (3.5%), 366 from Journal of International Business Studies (3.2%), and 269 from Journal of Marketing Research (2.3%). There are 12 Business journals, 5 Economics journals, and 2 Psychology journals on top 20 popular journal list. The number of accumulate citation rate over 50 % on each popular journal is 11 domestics and 26 internationals on 'Korean Management Review', 14 domestics and 25 internationals on 'The Korean Economic Review', and 16 domestics and 34 internationals on 'Journal of Korea Trade'.
Sixth, references are used very large range of published year from as old as 1759 to 2007 after statistical review. Over 77% of references are published before around 10 year-old, specifically 8.5 year-old documents have been used the most.
Finally, half-life period by cited literature statistic analysis is 10.9 years for domestic books (aging factor 0.9386) and 11.1 years for international books (aging factor 0.9399). For the journals, it is 6.0 years for domestic (aging factor 0.8923) and 8.2 years for international (aging factor 0.9197) which tells international articles are slightly longer half-life period than domestics.
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