An Analysis about Knowledge Originality and Interaction in the Public Administration and Other disciplines
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Tsai, Wan-Chu
Abstract
The Public Administration service with each category of civilization which could be resolved by an approach above mono phase of research, the development of science depends on nutrition as originality of knowledge by the self-citing process to found the types and degree of independence, interdisciplinary and interaction of science. The scholar are also seldom to have related studies nowadays, as for the foreign Public Administration presented the aspects of multi disciplines and method of interaction, therefore the goal of this study to realize the phenomenon of originality of knowledge and their interaction above.
The study adopted the approach of bibliography analysis of informetrics which cited the “Web of Science” database published on 1997 by ISI from the united states, which contains 6 branches of learning as Public Administration, Political Science, Management, Economic Science, Social Science and Law as the objects of research, and the sample was quoted each 5 for 1 article between 1981-2010 for 465, 174 reference text of 10,363 articles as the goal of analysis, the factors of interaction, self- citing rate and the citing rate of discipline with Brillouin’s Index as a tool of measurement.
According to the analysis of originality of knowledge as 9 achievements, they are following.
a. The Social Science is still the main originality of Public Administration.
b. The trend of Public Administration is citing Nature Science.
c. The originality of Public Administration variety with phases.
d. The track of originality and development of Public Administration are matched.
e. The stability of originality citing of Public Administration matched the variety of phases.
f. The position of Public Administration belongs to the reference discipline is clear.
g. The related disciplines of Public Administration to be mixed.
h. The Economic Science become the main originality to the Public Administration and related disciplines in the Social Science.
i. The different citing inertia of originality of knowledge in the related disciplines.
Secondly, there are also 5 achievements in the cross disciplines and independence to the science of Public Administration as following.
a. The degree of interdisciplinary are higher than related discipline.
b. The variety of disciplines increasing progressively with the time.
c. The rate of self-citing is adjustable as the other discipline.
d. The independence of discipline is descending with chronograph.
e. The inverse ratio of independence and absorbing ability to the discipline.
Finally, there are 4 achievements about aspects and degree to the interaction of Public Administration as following.
a. There is no difference of interaction to the Political Science, Economic Science and Law with the phases.
b. The variety of interaction is more than the other discipline.
c. There are 3 types of interaction.
d. There is symmetry within the interaction of related disciplines.
The conclusion from the achievements above which has proofed the independence of discipline and the rate of self-citing in direct proportion, and the degree of cross discipline with self-citing is inverse ratio also descending rate, the degree of cross disciplines is broaden as conclusion of forecast.
This study is also a prime attempt about related interaction of disciplines, which depends on more other scholar to modify under the trend of globalization and info mediation as a kind of integration of discipline, and this could be a easy process to resolve the disputation of research approach and subject identification, and also the reference of supplement.
Subjects
Knowledge Originality
Factor of Interaction Relation
Type of Interaction Relation
Degree of Interaction Relation
Type
thesis
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