Abstract
Abstract
Archaeology belonging to the areas of the humanities, is an important part of the
history of science in China.While in the rest countries,it belongs to the
anthropological or art history. The archaeology’s task is to study the ancient history of
mankind based on the materials of various activities remain by ancient human.It rises
and develops with the modern study thought and wide application of the science and
technology. As an interdisciplinary subject, the research of archaeology shows large
differences between the foreign and the domestic, mainly because the reaearch
direction and research ideas on abroad are different from the domestic’s.
Citation analysis is a kind of research method that uses the mathematics and
logic method of journals, papers, monographs, research object references cited
phenomenon and law of quantitative to analyse, in order to reveal the characteristics
of the research objects or the relationship between the research objects. It can be used
to analyse the citation relationship.Widely used in the visualization of citation
analysis, knowledge map,is a kind of graph showing the evolution of scientific
knowledge and the structure relationship. It can describe the knowledgebe and the
carrier by the visualization technology with the human’s time going, and draws, mines,
analyse and displays scientific knowledge and the relationship between them.
This study will retrieve citations closely related with the archaeology from
SSCI.Then,using citation analysis method, multivariate statistical analysis method,
social network analysis method and Bibexcel, Ucinet,Netdraw, this artical constructs
the archaeological academic groups and research hotspot of knowledge map, explores
the reasearch group behind the representative academic group and the anthority figure
of the group, determines the content of each focus. With the efforts,the author hope to
present the modern foreign archaeological’s research hotspot and mainstream clearly
and perspectively to the archaeological researchers in China, so that they can fully see
the overall development situation of the world’s archaeology, and easy to learn and
absorb the essence of archaeology.The author also hopes this artical can contribute to
the developmen of our archaeology, even in a small extent.
Key Words: Archaeology；Citation analysis；Knowledge map；Research focus
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