Ontology: The historical review and literature productivity analysis using bibliometric methodology from 1956 to 2008

Abstract

The objective of this paper is mainly focusing on the historical review of international periodicals and literatures which topics as great renown of \"Ontology\" on SSCI database from 1956 to 2008. The result indicated that the literature productions related to ontology topic are still growing. The frequency indexes of author productivity distribution didn`t follow by Lotca`s Law. The applications of ontology are mainly following by research aspects such as philosophy; computer science and information system; information science and library science; psychology, multidisciplinary; history and philosophy of science; ethics and sociology and so on. The literatures of ontology are usually generating by multiple authorship. Copyright © 2009 ACM.