Abstract:

According to the result of searching highly cited papers of library and information field from 2011 to 2015 in the China Academic Journal Network Publishing Database of CNKI, this paper extracts the keywords and makes statistics by Bicomb2. Using Price's law as a reference to confirm high frequency keywords of the highly cited papers, this paper makes social network analysis by SPSS, Ucinet and NetDraw to reveal the developing conditions and hot topics of library and information science.

Key words: library and information science, Price's law, highly cited, social network analysis, statistics analysis