Publications

  Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide -       If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? - Albert Einstein -       Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. - Chinese Proverb -       It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great. - Confucius -       It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth. - Henry Suso -      
2022
  • Yeo, J., Yang, K., Hiroko, I. & Lee, H. (2022). KCI vs. WoS: A study on the enhancement of Korean diaspora-related subject headings. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 53(1), 103-124.
2021
  • Yang, K., Lee, H., Kim, S., Lee J. & Oh, D. (2021). KCI vs. WoS: Comparative Analysis of Korean and International Journal Publication in Library and Information Science. Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 9(3), 76-106.
  • Lee, J., Park, J., Yang, K. & Oh, D. (2021). Measurement Invariance of Journal Selection Criteria between Researchers in Library and Information Science and Social Science. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 52(2), 235-252.
  • Yang, K. (2021). Layman’s Guide to Information Retrieval and Search Engines. Gyeongil Cultural History Pub lishing.
  • Yang, K., Lee, H.& Kim, S. (2021). Comparison of research performance between domestic and international library and information science scholars. Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science Society, 5(1), 365-392.
2020
  • Lee, J., Yang, K. & Oh, D. (2020). Factors influencing the choice of a publication venue in library and information science. Learned Publishing, 33(3), 323-332.
2019
  • Oh, D., E. Kim, J. Yeo, Yang, K. & Lee, J. (2019). A Comparative Analysis of Editorial Leaders' Profiles of Major and Non-Western Library and Information Science Journals. Journal of Information Theory and Practice, 7(4), 20-32.
  • Lee, H., Yang, K. & Oh, D. (2019). Comparative Analysis of Journal Publication Patterns in Library and Information Science: based on KCI and SSCI. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 50(4), 493-510.
  • Yang, K. (2019). Comparative Analysis of Publication Patterns in Sciences and Humanities: Based on Bibliometric Data from Korea Citation Index. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 50(3), 23-47.
  • Lee, H., Kim, S. & Yang, K. (2019). Analysis of Collaborative Research Trends in Library and Information Science in Korea. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 50(2), 191-214.
2018
  • Oh, D., Yang, K., Yeo, J. & Park, S. (2018). Analysis of Sister Journal Characteristics for Enhancing the Publication of International Journals Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 49(3), 219-240.
  • Yang, K. & Lee, H. (2018). Quantifying Quality: Research Performance Evaluation in Korean Universities. Journal of Information Theory and Practice, 6(3), 45-60.
  • Yang, K., Oh, D. & Lee, J. (2018). Comparative Analysis of Publication Patterns in KCI and SSCI journal papers. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Library and Information Science, 82-89.
  • Oh, D., Yeo, J., Yang, K. & Lee, J. (2018). Analysis on the Characteristics of Editorial Board Members of Non-North American and Non-European LIS Journals Listed in WoS and Scopus. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Library and Information Science, 152-163.
  • Choi, E. & Yang, K. (2018). A Bibliometric Analysis of Library and Information Science Research in Korea. Discourse and Policy in Social Science, 11(1), 101-123.
2017
  • Shin, D. & Yang, K. (2017). A Method for Same Author Name Disambiguation in Domestic Academic Papers. Journal of Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science, 28(4), 301-319.
  • Lee, H. & Yang, K. (2017). Comparative analysis of Korean universities’ journal publication research performance evaluation standard. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 48(2), 295-322.
2016
  • Yang, K. & Shin, D. (2016). Analysis of Korean Traditional Records Information System. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 21(2), 191-217.
  • Yang, K., Lee, J. & Choi, W. (2016). Publication and citation patterns of Korean LIS research by subject areas. Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, 21(2), 61-87.
  • Choi, E., Yang, K., Lee, H. (2016). Quality Factor: A new bibliometric measure for assessing the quality of faculty research performance. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 47(2), 287-304.
2015
  • Lee, H. & Yang, K. (2015). Comparative analysis of Korean universities’ Co-author credit allocation standards on journal publications. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 46(4), 191-205.
  • Yang, K., Lee, J. & Choi, W. (2015). Looking Beyond the Numbers: Bibliometric Approach to Analysis of LIS Research in Korea. Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science, 49(4), 2413-264.
  • Lee, J. & Yang, K. (2015). Co-authorship Credit Allocation Methods in the Assessment of Citation Impact of Chemistry Faculty. Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science, 49(3), 273-289.
  • Yang, K. (2015). Fusion Approach for Optimizing Web Search Performance. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management, 32(1), 5-21.
  • Yang, K. (2015). Fusion Approach to Targeted Opinion Detection in Blogosphere. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 46(1), 325-348.
2014
  • Yang, K. (2014). Combining Faceted Classification and Concept Search: A Pilot Study. Journal of Korean Society for Library and Information Science, 48(4), 5-23.
  • Yang, K. (2014). Combining multiple sources of evidence to enhance Web search performance. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 45(3), 5-36.
2013
  • Yang, K., Lee, J., Choi, S.H. & You, B.J. (2012). Comparison and Analysis of Data Coverage for Citation Index. Eighth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics (WIS) & Thirteenth COLLNET Meeting.
  • Lee, J., Yang, K., Kim, B., & You, B. (2012). Analysis of Korea Science Citation Database’s effect on JCR. Journal of Information Management, 43(3), 23-41.
  • Yang, K. & Lee, J. (2012). Analysis of publication patterns in Korean library and information science research. Scientometrics, 93(2), 233-251.
2012
  • Yang, K., Lee, J., Choi, S.H. & You, B.J. (2012). Comparison and Analysis of Data Coverage for Citation Index. Eighth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics (WIS) & Thirteenth COLLNET Meeting.
  • Lee, J., Yang, K., Kim, B., & You, B. (2012). Analysis of Korea Science Citation Database’s effect on JCR. Journal of Information Management, 43(3), 23-41.
  • Yang, K. & Lee, J. (2012). Analysis of publication patterns in Korean library and information science research. Scientometrics, 93(2), 233-251.
2011
  • Lee, J. & Yang, K. (2011). A bibliometric analysis of faculty research performance assessment methods. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management, 28(4), 119-140.
  • Lee, J. & Yang, K. (2011). A bibliometric study of library and information science research in Korea. Journal of the Korean Library and Information Science Society, 45(4), 53-76.
  • Yang, K. & Meho, L. (2011). Multi-faceted citation analysis for quality assessment of scholarly publications. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management, 28(2), 79-96.
2009
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2007
  • Meho, L. & Yang, K. (2007). Fusion approach to citation-based quality assessment. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, 2, 568-581.
  • Meho, L. & Yang, K. (2007). Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of Science vs. Scopus and Google Scholar. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(13), 2105-2125.
  • Kang, H. K., Jeon, H.S., Ko, M.C., Kim, J.S., & Yang, K. (2007). A resolving of word sense ambiguity using two-level document ranking method in information retrieval. In 2007 International Symposium on Information Technology Convergence (pp. 315-319). Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society.
  • Yang, K., & Meho, L. (2007). CiteSearch: Next-generation citation analysis. Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 101-102.
  • Yang, K., Yu, N., Valerio, A., & Zhang, H. (2007). WIDIT in TREC2006 Blog track. Proceedings of the 15th Text Retrieval Conference.
  • Yang, K., Yu, N., Valerio, A., Zhang, H, & Ke, W. (2007). Fusion approach to finding opinionated blogs. Proceedings of the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 44.
  • Yang, K., Yu, N., Valerio, A., Zhang, H, & Ke, W. (2007). Fusion approach to finding opinions in blogosphere. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.
  • Yang, K., Yu, N., Valerio, A., Zhang, H, & Ke, W. (2007, May). Mining for opinions in blogosphere. In D.W. Cheung & J. Lu (Chairs), 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Nanjing, China.
2006
  • Loehrlein, A., Jacob, E. K., & Yang, K. (2006). Development of heuristics in a hybrid approach to faceted classification. In G. Budin, C. Swertz, & K. Mitgutsch (Eds.), Advances in Knowledge Organization, Vol. 10: Knowledge Organization for a Global Learning Society (pp. 255-262). Würzberg, Germany: Ergon Verlag.
  • Meho, L. & Yang, K. (2006). Multi-faceted approach to citation-based quality assessment for knowledge management. In World Library and Information Congress: 72nd International Federation of Library Association General Conference and Council.
  • Meho, L. & Yang, K. (2006, May). Locating online government information: A Comparison of FirstGov, Google, and Yahoo. Poster session presented at the 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, San Diego, CA.
  • Yang, K. & Meho, L. (2006). Citation Analysis: A comparison of Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science. Proceedings of the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 43, 185-199.
  • Yang, K., Yu, N., George, N., Loehrlen, A., MaCaulay, D., Zhang, H., Akram, S., Mei, J., & Record, I. (2006). WIDIT in TREC2005 HARD, Robust, and Spam tracks. Proceedings of the 14th Text Retrieval Conference.
  • Yang, K., Yu, N., Zhang, H., Akram, S., & Record, I. (2006). WIDIT: Integrated approach to HARD topic search. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 4182. Information retrieval technology (pp. 649-658). New York: Springer-Verlag.
2005
  • Loehrlein, A., Jacob, E. K., Yang, K., Lee, S., & Yu, N. (2005). A hybrid approach to faceted classification based on analysis of descriptor suffixes. Proceedings of the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 42.
  • Yang, K. (2005). Information Retrieval on the Web. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 39, 33-80.
  • Yang, K., & Yu, N. (2005). WIDIT: Fusion-based approach to Web search optimization. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 3689. Information retrieval technology (pp. 206-220). New York: Springer-Verlag.
  • Yang, K., Yu, N., Lee, Y. (2005) Dynamic Tuning for Fusion: Harnessing Human Intelligence to Optimize System Performance. Proceedings of the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.
  • Yang, K., Yu, N., Wead, A., La Rowe, G., Lee, Y. H., French, C., & Lee, Y (2005). WIDIT in TREC2004 Genomics, HARD, Robust, and Web tracks. Proceedings of the 13th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC2004).
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1997
  • Yang, K. (1997). Combining Multiple Document Representations and Multiple Relevance Feedback Methods to Improve Retrieval Performance. Master's Thesis.
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