当下CiteSpace分析工具已经成为新闻传播学科方法新宠，本文通过辨析CiteSpace依 循的哲学理念、主诉功能，并结合传播学科引入初衷及应用现状批判，认为CiteSpace开 发者许诺的愿景是出于对库恩理论的误会，CiteSpace的核心技术不足以支撑此愿景大 厦，但传播学依然可能借助CiteSpace的技术发现以否思的思维方式反向探究学科反常， 开辟传播学研究的新增成长点。

CiteSpace analysis tool has become a new method favorite in journalism and communication researchers. By distinguishing and analyzing the philosophical ideas and main functions of CiteSpace, as well as combining the original intention when it was introduced and current situation when it is applied, this article points out that the vision promised by CiteSpace developers misunderstood Kuhn’s theory so that its core technology does not suffce to support. However, CiteSpace tool may help researchers to explore discipline anomalies by unthinking that may open up new growth points in communication research.