Abstract:

The field of Library and Information Science is one of the important forces to conduct academic researches on intellectual property. Through the literature on this subject from the statistics of CNKI and CSSCI, the paper discovers the dynamic evolution process of the academic research in this field by using mapping display and giving a deep mining into the data relation in the mapping, and it also reveals that high yield authors and group of publishing have been formed in the research field and the scientific cooperation rate is relatively high; the core research institutes which are represented by the Information Management College of Wuhan University and core author groups which are represented by Chen Chuanfu are formed; the research hotspots are copyright, patent documents, reasonable use and some other questions related to the theories and practice of intellectual property in Library and Information Science; the research field is also good at tracking the national policy and solving the problems of intellectual property in each process of information transmission by basing itself upon scientific frontiers.

Key words: Library and Information Science, 　Intellectual property, 　Academic evolution