The Construction Of Mapping Knowledge Domains In Emerging Discipline

This paper, taking the Geographical Information Science as an example, discussed the theories and methods about the construction of Mapping Knowledge Domains in emerging discipline, and analyzed the role of Mapping Knowledge Domains for the emerging discipline research. Full text is divided into seven parts. The first part of this paper is the forward, explained the reasons for the topic, the significance and the expected innovations of this article.The second part is the background and history of the construction about Mapping Knowledge Domains in emerging discipline. Main overview of what is an emerging discipline, the rising process and the types and characteristics of the emerging discipline, the development and the research status of Mapping Knowledge Domains.Third part introduces the theory in the progress of construction about Mapping Knowledge Domains in emerging discipline. The theory mainly involves of paradigm, the scientific community, as well as the invisible college these views on the theory of Sociology of science. The goal for this part is to find the corresponding theoretical support for the progress of construction.Part IV is the specific process of construction about Mapping Knowledge Domains in emerging discipline, describes the general steps for building and the construction methods and visualization tools used in the process.Part V is the construction about Mapping Knowledge Domains in geographical information science, entering the demonstration stage of the construction about Mapping Knowledge Domains in emerging discipline. Geographical information science is a concrete example of the emerging discipline across the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and other emerging cross-discipline. Drawing Mapping Knowledge Domains to multivariate analysis the journal quoted situation, the authors cited relations, the author cooperated relations and the core proposition of disciplines. Part VI summarizes the research significance of various study angles and methods in Mapping Knowledge Domains for the emerging discipline. Finally in the conclusion section pointed out that the shortcomings of the article and discussion on future research directions.This paper used scientific measurement and visualization of Mapping Knowledge Domains to show out, the interdisciplinary field, our geographical information scientific, discipline leaders, the subject structure and the progress of discipline invisible college. Then introduced the meaning about the tool of Mapping Knowledge Domains to the emerging discipline, this may offer some references for geographic information science research in research on reasonable disciplinary layout, grasping focus direction, and selecting frontier topics, offer some methodological and theoretical references on drawing other emerging disciplines' Mapping Knowledge Domains, and provide useful information to the comparison and the mutual learning among emerging disciplinaries.