The Discovery of Scientific Community in Cognitive Psychology in China

Scientific community is a group of scientists having identical or similar values and goals. And the information meaning of the scientific community is revealing the structure and development law of subject. Based on the theory and method of social network analysis,and by using UCINET software,this paper analyzes the co-citation relationship among the authors of academic papers in cognitive psychology field in China,and mines the scientific community in this field and its attributes under the view of information for providing some scientific bases for exploring the subject structure and evolution law in cognitive psychology fiwld.