跨领域学术社群之智识网络结构初探以台湾科技与社会研.PDFVIP

82 99.12 125-163 跨領域學術社群之智識網絡結構初探： 以臺灣科技與社會研究為例 Exploring Intellectual Network Structure of an Interdisciplinary Research Community: A Case Study of Taiwan’s STS Community *** Da-Yu Yuan*, Muh-Chyun Tang** 摘　要 Scien ce, Tech n ol ogy an d Society studies, STS ST S 6 1ST S 7~8 knowledge redundancy * Teaching Assistant, School of Continuing Education of Chinese Culture University (SCE) (To whom all correspondence should be addressed.) E-mail: j adeandjewery@ ** Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University. 125 82 99.12 Abstract Applying methods in bibliometrics and social network analysis (SNA), the paper sets out to examine interdisciplinary knowledge transfer and synthesis of the Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS) community in Taiwan. Based on 61 STS members’ journal articles, the researcher created two relational matrices to represent the intellectual structure of the community, one through bibliometric coupling technique; the other, author co-citation technique. By applying several SNA techniques, we were able to analyze the intellectual configuration of STS community across different disciplinary boundaries. Research findings show that the network connection density tends to be low and that there are several central figures exerting greater influence on network cohesion. Based on actors’ “stru