Content Analysis of Papers Published in The Journal of Eurasian Studies(2004~2007)
Authors:   Asia-Europe Perspective Association, Kim Yong-Kyeom 
Published: June 2018

The Journal of Eurasian Studies has been regarded as one of the academic journals among Asia/ Europe-related Journals. In a spirit of self-introspective content analysis, this paper profiles research published in The Journal of Eurasian Studies during the past 4year period(2004~2007).
The author identify frequency trends by science department, affiliation(region)/paper scores by researcher, paper scores by affiliation(region), frequency trends by research subjects, the most utilized methodology(ranks)/frequency trends, research subjects/maximum preferred methodology by top 20 researchers, the others, and present the future research direction of the The Journal of Eurasian Studies.
Based on a more detailed analysis of paper during the past 4years, the author identify that the Asia/Europe-related research was performed by professor or researcher belong to university or institution in capital region, most often investigated subject areas are business management and most often employed research methodologies are speculation.commentary/frameworks. The author identify best practices by way of analyzing the subjects(i.e. finance, local economics, history of management), methodologies(i.e. speculation.commentary, frameworks), and nation-related paper number(the number of paper on Korean subject is 25, it is maximum in respect of nation-related paper number) performed by highly published top 20 researchers. These results indicate that Asia/Europe-related research is clearly dominated by few university or few research institution. These findings should have implications for researchers, editors, universities, research institutions, and etc..
Besides pre-analysis noted above, it is included that sort of research variable, analysis unit of research, reference discipline, number of researcher, affiliation type, citation type(citation literature, language to be written), half-period of literature(i.e. utilizing index of up-to-date literature or utilizing index of the newest literature). Among above analysis number of researcher, type of affiliation, and language to be written were analyzed. Type of affiliation is represented by replacing precision representation about affiliation and number of paper to be written by Korean is 62, by English is 35, by German is 10, by French is 1, and by Japanese is 1.
Ultimately, then, Asia/Europe-related research will progress only by developing fundamental theories that endure. Therefore, it need to reflect, build on, refine, and redefine core theories in the light of new knowledge linked with new environment. Comparative study between related association(or society) will be needed for activation of Asia/Europe-related research including humanities(i.e. cultural science) /scientific technique. It is necessary that revitalization of research on specific nation(s) or research between nations. Besides some researchers in management area, it is necessary that various researchers belong to other science discipline participate actively in this Asia/Europe-related research for comprehensive research about Asia/Europe-related research.
As time goes by, the author believe that it is inevitable that the Eurasian subjects will be specialized due to the need to handle an ever increasing contents and diversity of knowledge. For example, the author believe that region-related journal(e.g. journal on the field of the management/economics/politics/diplomacy/commercial trade/society/culture in relation to Africa) that is representative of region as well as specific constituencies(e.g. resource diplomacy related constituencies) would be published in the future.