Research Trend of Korea National and Urban Planning through the Journal of the Korea Planners Association

This study aims to identify the research trend of the Journal of the Korea Planners Association. The ssociation has issued the journal over 40 years, and is the oldest academic organization as well as the one of most influential bodies in planning field. The journal has been considered as the top ranked. The papers in it has been frequently quoted from other articles. Analyzing the trend of research papers in the journal could show the history and development of academic issues, helping to improve further achievement. By identifying the change of research fields, data collection method, research methodology, and the number and affiliation of authors, the study can give several results as follows. First, research papers on the journal have absolutely increased sinceab990s with increasing numbers of papers in the field of practical application rather than theoretical papers. Second, almost 63.9% of papers issued in the journal dealt with urban areas for the spatial level which is categorized into city, region and nation. Third, balanced pattern would be identified in the number of papers for such diverse research field as general planning, housing, urban design, transport and etc, although several issues including housing and urban design has peaked when special interests raised. Fourth, interview and case studies were much more frequently used among data collection methods during the analysis period. However, such an approach has decreased while a questionnaire method increasing sinceahav0s. Fifth, a numericn hasalysis method has been much more frequently employed as an important research approach. Especially, a statistical asalysis methodology was increasingly used, occupying 45.4% during the hav0s. Sixth, the number of authors continuously increased while the percentile of professors decreasing for authors' affiliation