Based on the papers published in journals indexed by SCI/SSCI between 2008 and 2012, we studied the interdisciplinarity of iSchools and visualized publication portfolios among different journals and clusters. The findings indicate that the iSchools can be seen as interdisciplinary environments from a macroscopic perspective, but each individual iSchool has its own strengths and specializations. In many cases, the ‘i’ in the individual ‘iSchool’ can only be interpreted as ‘information’ not ‘interdisciplinary’. The results also show that LIS-related journals still occupy the most important position in the research output of iSchools, although some iSchools with strong computer science background are members of this organization. This work is compared to earlier analyses and provides a different view of the state of the interdisciplinarity of iSchools.

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iSchools 的跨学科性：研究出版物的分析和可视化

基于 2008 年至 2012 年在 SCI/SSCI 索引的期刊上发表的论文，我们研究了 iSchools 的跨学科性，并可视化了不同期刊和集群之间的出版物组合。研究结果表明，从宏观的角度来看，iSchool 可以被视为跨学科环境，但每个 iSchool 都有自己的优势和专业。在很多情况下，个人“iSchool”中的“i”只能解释为“信息”而不是“跨学科”。结果还表明，LIS 相关期刊在 iSchools 的研究产出中仍然占据最重要的位置，尽管一些具有强大计算机科学背景的 iSchools 是该组织的成员。