Information Visualization Analysis of the Hot Research Topics and the Research Fronts of Information Resources Management (IRM)

This article choosing all the 3925 documents' citation as data sample of ¿ information resources management (IRM)¿, which was published in Web of Science (SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI) from 1986 to 2008, confirming the hot research topics and the research fronts by using word frequency analysis and detect key words that their term frequency changed notably, and drawing the knowledge mapping of them by using Citespace: a information visualization software. Hoping it can benefit to the research of information resources management (IRM).