2017 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 133-136
"Architecture" is generally translated as "kenchiku", but it is also used in various research fields. In order to find how the word of "architecture" was used, we investigated the following three items in the Web of Science of academic literature search service: (i) the number of documents including "architecture" in their titles, (ii)the research fields of documents including "architecture" in the title, and (iii) the overlap of research fields of documents including "architecture" in the title. We obtained the knowledge that the word of "architecture" was mainly used in the field of "Arts, Humanities" in the early days, but in recent years it was used in the field of "Technology".