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(LIS) in China to reveal the importance and the situation of software citation in domestic LIS
research.
Firstly, we select 9,224 articles published between 2007 and 2016 in nine LIS journals indexed
in CSSCI, a famous core journal database in humanities and social sciences in China. Secondly,
we create content analysis categories and quantization forms for coding. And then, seven trained
coders label these 9,224 articles according to the categories and quantization forms. Finally, we
analyze the labeled data and draw conclusions. The findings are as follows: ① The proportion of
articles using software is rising yearly between 2007 and 2016, meaning the LIS research has been
increasingly dependent on scientific software. Information Science is relatively more dependent
on software: the proportion of articles using software is more than 20% in Information Science
in 2016, while the proportion of articles using software is nearly 10% in Library Science. ② The
uncitedness of software in domestic LIS research is noticeable, and standardization of software
citation behavior requires improvement. The average software citation ratio in nine journals is only
0.16 and has no rising tendency between 2007 and 2016. The researchers tend to cite the URL of
software with the ratio up to 52.92%. Furthermore, non-commercial software gains more citation
than commercial software and there is a significant difference between the two. ③ The researchers
mention the basic description of software randomly. In the 1,901 times of software usage, we
find that less than 30% mention version information, only 6.26% and 8.10% mention creator and
website information, and more than 60% have no any mentions of the above software information.
④ The usage frequency and types of domestic software are much less than that of foreign software.
Among the 118 pieces of software with the usage frequency greater than or equal to two, 95 pieces
(81%) are foreign software, while 23 pieces are domestic software (one of which is from Taiwan
province). It suggests that more investment in software research and development (R&D) is needed.
This research demonstrates the importance of software based on the detailed and reliable data. It
provides decision-making support for relevant departments, assisting in incorporation of software
into research evaluation, helping to establish a more open and inclusive evaluation system, and
then to improve scientific research efficiency as well as to optimize the allocation of resources. It
also helps to reveal the extent of dependence on software in domestic LIS research, to have a better
understanding of the discipline characteristics of LIS. The research evaluates the software citation
practice in domestic LIS scientifically, promoting the standardization of software citation.

Emergence of correlation in domain knowledge based on frequency evolution
TENG Guangqing〇
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The growth and evolution of domain knowledge have always been the focus of Library and

* Correspondence should be addressed to TENG Guangqing, Email: tengguangqing@163.com, ORCID: 0000-0002-1053-0959