本研究目的在探索與繪製1997年至2006年間創新研究領域的智慧結構，使用引文與共引文分析來確認研究領域中相關文獻和有影響力的學者及其間的關聯性。本文藉由十年間發表在SSCI及SCI 資料庫中二個有關創新期刊的文獻為研究樣本，共計分析了775篇文獻及17,382筆參考文獻資料，並以書目計量學與社會網路分析技術為研究方法來研究創新文獻。研究結果可提供讀者一個有系統又客觀之研發方法及評估創新刊物的工具且出現四個不同的要素(議題): (1)產品發展與管理，(2)行銷管理與策略，(3)產品創新概念，與(4)新產品發展與績效。

The purpose of this study is to explore and map the intellectual structure of innovation studies during 1997-2006. This study also attempts to identify the relevant publications and influential scholars as well as the correlations among these publications using citation and co-citation analyses. In this paper, bibliometrics and social network analysis techniques are used to research knowledge network of the innovation literature by analyzing 17,382 cited references of 775 articles from two innovation related journals in SSCI and SCI databases. Four factors emerged in this study: (1) product development and management, (2) marketing management and strategy, (3) product innovation concepts, and (4) new product development and performance. This study provides readers a tool for evaluating innovation publications and provides a systematic and objective ways of determining the relative knowledge nodes in the development of innovation research.