Abstract:

Social tagging,as an important way of network information resource organization in current web2.0 environment, has received extensive attention from scholars in the field of information science and more and more research and work relating to social tagging have been done in China. Using methods of social network analysis, clustering analysis and word frequency analysis, this paper, taking the existing relevant research literature of China as the analyzed object, reveals the scientific research structure of social tagging. Its analysis focuses mainly on the scientific research cooperation groups and their research topics, the current research hotspots and the future research trends. The work of this paper is aiming to promote the cooperation and exchanges between scholars and their groups, to provide referenced topics and research direction for the future research.

Key words: Social tagging, Online information organiztion, Knowledge map, Hot research area