本研究旨在利用引用文獻分析法,分析臺灣發表「四庫學」期刊研究論文及學位論文256篇研究論文之14,638筆引用文獻,探討其引用文獻之資料類型、學科領域、出版年代與半衰期、最常被引用圖書及期刊等引用習慣及特性。研究結果顯示,「四庫學」研究之引用資料類型以現代專書所佔比例最高,其次是古籍。被引用的古籍類及現代出版圖書之所屬學科領域皆以總類文獻居首,而語言文學類居次,中國史地類再次。現代出版文獻其引用年代距出版年代以當年至5年引用最多,逾八成引用文獻出版於被引用的當年至25年間,引文半衰期為11.69年。被引用的古籍與現代出版圖書逾七成僅被引用1次,最常被引用的古籍21種、現代圖書29種、期刊35種。
This study applies the method of citation analysis to analyze the 14,638 citations and works cited in the 256 research papers on the Ssu-k'u Studies (四庫學) in Taiwan. It explores the characteristics of those cited works and citations such as their types, disciplines, publication eras, citation half-life and tendencies, including the most frequently cited books and journals. The research results revealed that modern monographs make up the largest proportion of the works cited in the 256 research papers, and ancient books occupy the second largest proportion of those cited works. Generalities category of New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries is the discipline that most of the ancient and modern books cited come from; the discipline of linguistics and literature and that of Chinese history and geography have the second and the third most ancient and modern books cited. Concerning the cited works published in the modern era, the number of the works that were cited within five years since they were published is the highest. More than 80 percent of the works cited of modern publications were cited within one to 25 years after they were published. The citation half-life is 11.69 years. More than 70 percent of ancient and modern books cited in the 256 papers were cited only once. There are 21 titles of ancient books, 29 titles of modern books, and 35 titles of journals that are most frequently cited.