Library and Information Science

This paper suggested a survey of using co-citation mapping and citation diagrams to analyze a particular research specialty. The method was consisted of two steps. The first step is co-citation mapping to track the specialty. The second step is making citation diagrams in each group to clear the development process of research. The discussion about of locating literatures on citation diagrams was proposed. The co-citation map was made on 59 literatures frequently cited (beyond 10 times) by “Knowledge Representation” literature in psychology which was published from 1988 to 1991. In result, the “Knowledge Representation” study was parted to 4 groups: memory, semantic memory and effects of context, text comprehension, and textbooks. The citation flow of the citation diagrams on each group, corresponded with contents of some major textbooks. Besides the co-citation map was evaluated by a psychologist, and it was admitted.