A classification of the journals in KCI using network clustering methods

Abstract

KCI is a database for the citations of journals and papers published in Korea. Classification of a journal listed in KCI was mainly determined by the publisher who registered the journal at the time of application for the journal. However, journal classification in KCI was known for not properly representing the quoting rate between journals. In this study, we extracted communities of the journals registerd in KCI based on quoting relationship using various network clustering algorithms. Among them, the infomap algorithm turned out to give a classification more being alike to the current KCI's in the aspect of the modular structure.