Classifying the geology journals by editorial board interlocks

摘要

Academic journals are important carriers of scientific activities, important academic communication media, and channels in the process of scientific development, and an important research unit in the structure and classification system of scientific knowledge. In this paper, we use the interlocking editorship theory to construct a complex network of important journal editors of geology, analyze the degree of intimacy between journals, and use visual means to classify geological journals according to disciplines, and show the branches and subject areas of geology. On this basis, it reveals the development and evolution law of the discipline of geology and the structural characteristics of cross-fusion.