森林經營是一門綜合林學知識的應用科學，由其發展取向可瞭解森林專業的建構與變遷過程。本研究即透過林業試驗所森林經營主題之期刊論文，以文獻計量法與社會計量法來分析研究趨勢與研究人力間的關係。從1947至2000年間林業試驗所之森林經營類論文共出版165篇，佔全部林業主題的15%。森林經營研究中以森林經理、林業經濟與森林規劃為主要研究領域，而林政與森林遊樂領域的研究產量均低。整體觀之，森林經營研究取向維續著傳統森林經營的核心，如強調木材生產與人工林經營等概念；但近十年間已逐漸融合了生態取向與社會面向等新議題。由於林業試驗所森林經營類研究人力有限，少數高產作者即足以影響整體的研究表現。本研究認為提高研究人力的流動有助於研究的創新與擴散。
The study aimed at analyzing the relationships between research tendencies and human resources applied to forest management studies at the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (TFRI) from 1947 to 2000 by means of utilizing bibliometrics and sociometrics. There were 165 papers regarding forest management subjects completed within the period, equivalent to 15% of the amount of TFRI’s total papers published during that time. Quantitatively, these research subjects mostly focused on traditional forest management, forest economics, and forest planning, with fewer studies on forest policy and forest recreation. Generally speaking, the papers stressed the core concepts of traditional forest management such as timber production or plantation management; however, new issues from the viewpoints of ecology and society emerged in the last decade. Because TFRI’s manpower was very limited, a minority of researchers with high academic productivity usually dominated the development tendencies of the Institute’s forest management research subjects. The study also indicated that the faster the turnover of researchers was, the greater were innovation and diffusion of new research concepts.
