Comparative Analysis of Information Design Research at China and Abroad Based on VOSviewer and CiteSpace
Ruhe Zhang*, Lu Zhao and Yuting Liu
Published: October 31, 2022
Abstract
The progress and status of information design at home and abroad is comparative analysis. Based on the Web of Science and CNKI databases, the relevant documents of foreign and domestic information design were obtained as data resources, and bibliometric analysis methods and content analysis methods were used to draw knowledge maps combined with the visualization functions of VOSviewer and CiteSpace software, and systematically analyzed the distribution of cooperation networks. Three aspects of hot topic distribution and time zone evolution analysis reflect the research status of this field. The research hotspots and trends in the field of information design at home and abroad are different. The foreign research in this field is earlier, the research institutions are closely connected, the research content is more detailed, and the human-oriented concept of information is concerned; the domestic research in this field is relatively late, there is a lack of connection between research institutions, and the research content is relatively scattered, focusing on the technology and method research of information design. The research in the field of information design in China should return to the human-oriented concept of metacognition, start from the information ontology, establish a research chain to explore human needs, and at the same time promote the research on intelligent information dissemination, and use innovative thinking to reconstruct more complex information problems. More detailed cross-cutting research, to establish rich information design context logic, to meet the more specific information needs of users.
Keywords: information design; Visual analysis; Research trends; VOSviewer; CiteSpace