Abstract: 【Purpose/significance】With the explosive growth of all kinds of scientific data in the era of big data, the importance of scien?
tific data analysis has become increasingly apparent. Because of its expertise in information analysis, information science should ac?
tively participate in the promotion of scientific data analysis, making it a new growth point of its own.【Method/process】Summarize the development trend of scientific data analysis, analyze the connotation and extension of scientific data analysis, and provide reference for the frontier expansion of information science. It is proposed that there is general pattern for scientific data analysis with focusing on specific scientific issues, and that there are methods by developing and deepening scientific data analysis centered on knowledge dis? covery.【Result/conclusion】It is strengthened that astronomical and physical data analysis as well as biological and medical data analysis have become important fields in scientific data analysis, and it is revealed that scientific data analysis forms a relatively inde? pendent research community due to different subject areas through the author's keyword co-occurrence. It is suggested to have a new perspective for deepening scientific data analysis in different subject areas, while it is also suggested to pay attention to computational social science and digital humanities.【Innovation/limitation】It is pointed out that scientific data analysis is expected to become a new growth point for promoting information science.