Author(s)

Jiamei Yang, Mengxia Cheng

Corresponding Author

Jiamei Yang

ABSTRACT

As a new discipline in the field of library science, the digital library has obvious interdisciplinary phenomenon. Studying its interdisciplinary trend and research topics will help scholars understand the development of the discipline and provide guidance for scholars to conduct interdisciplinary research. This paper studies the interdisciplinary situation of digital library from the perspectives of scholars' interdisciplinary publications and text content, revealing the relationship between digital library and other areas and the evolution of interdisciplinary research in digital library. Finally, the use of keyword frequency analysis reveals the themes of scholars' interdisciplinary research.

KEYWORDS

digital library, interdisciplinary research, bibliometrics, word frequency analysis