ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

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Background: Research of trends in research provides basic data for reviewing previously conducted studies and setting future research directions. However, there is a long gap in the research targeting the overall domestic design research, and the corresponding papers are still significantly insufficient. Methods: Topic modeling was conducted using a total of 6,071 papers published in three comprehensive South Korean design journals for 17 years from 2004 to 2020 as learning data. Next, the dominant topics of each paper have been extracted from the model and the number of papers for each topic was measured every four years to examine how research topics in the design field have changed. Results: When topic modeling was performed, the number of topics with the highest topic consistency was 56, of which 4 were related to research methods, not subjects. When comparing the number of papers based on the dominant topic, the topics in the upper and lower sections continued to change by period, which seems to be the result of responding to the policies and the issues of the times. Conclusions: This study is valuable in that it can understand, even in a limited way, what research topics have been dealt with by researchers in the design field and how the topics have changed over time. It is hoped that this study can be used as basic data for researchers in the design field to review their research topics and to establish future research directions.

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