Abstract:

On the basis of China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database and China Science and Technology Journal Database, this paper retrieves 236 articles on the topic of noninteractive literaturesbased discovery published from 2002 to 2012. Using the method of literature quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis, the paper  studies these articles from five aspects, which include the time distribution, journal  distribution, author distribution, affiliation distribution and content distribution. Finally, the impact of noninteractive literaturesbased discovery on knowledge organization and information retrieval is explored.

Key words: Noninteractive literature, Swanson’s methodology, Knowledge discovery, Literature-based discovery, Arrowsmith, Overview