Citation network-based rule of knowledge flow between different medical subjects and its enlightenments / 中华医学图书情报杂志

ABSTRACT

The characteristics of knowledge exchange in medical field of China were analyzed by social network analysis with the medical data covered in CNKI Citation Database as its study object, which showed that both the inflow and outflow volumes of clinical medicine are the largest and form the core in knowledge exchange network, preclinical medicine is the theoretical base of other medical subjects and the important knowledge source in medical networks, the interchange is close between traditional Chinese medicine, surgery and other clinical subjects, oncology is rather active in interdisciplinary studies, the interchange between stomatology and psychology is rather rare with other clinical subjects in knowledge networks and stomatology and psychology are two independent subjects.Carrying out information push service for these subjects by making use of their characteristics can improve the targeted information service, step up the knowledge exchange between different medical subjects, and promote the cooperative interdis-ciplinary studies.