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RBU Journal of library & Information Science, V. 23, 2021
Review 69, Book Review 60, Editorial Material 25 and
Article; Early Access 16.
The study employed the Biblioshiny app specially
designed for the Bibliometrix R package, Histcite, and a
robust Java-based application ScientoPy, to convert,
process, visualize, mapping and evaluate the selected
dataset. Moreover, we utilized another java based apps
VOSViewer, to provide some more complete
visualization.
Findings and Discussions
Based on the results of the collection of articles on the
theme of ILS research from 2001 to 2020, there are 1749
documents published by 122 sources (journals, books,
etc.), written by 2830 authors, 586 single-authored
documents, and 2244 multi-authored documents affiliated
with 1153 institutions and 81 countries. These documents
received 10255 total citations. The maximum of the
research publications is written in the English language
(1592), followed by Spanish (67), Portuguese (40),
German (27), Japanese (16), and French (7).
1 Year-Wise Research Growth Trend
The number of published academic papers is an important
indicator to measure the development trend of specific
scientific research. Figure 1 shows the year-wise
frequency of publications and citations published from
2001 to 2020. A total of 1749 publications were published
in ILS during 2001-2020, and these publications received
10255 citations. The highest number of publications, 117,
was published in 2009. The highest number of citations,
1016, was acquired in 2001. The trend indicates that
publication and citation have not gradually increased. The
total number of publications is consistently published in
ILS research, but the number of citations was decreased.
Figure 1 shows the details about the changes in the number
of literature in this field.
Figure 1: Publication and citations trend
2 Influential Countries and Collaborations
The publication of papers in different countries can reflect
the country's importance and influence in ILS. A total of
83 countries or regions published articles between 2001-
2020. The top ten (10) highly publishing countries on ILS
literature were as presented in Table 1. The result shows
that the USA is at the top of the list with 486 publications,
5622 citations, 11.57 Average citations per paper (ACPP),
and it received the highest 144 total link strength. England
holds 2nd rank with 115 publications, 1056 citations, 9.18
ACPP, and 48 total link strength. After this, China
occupied the third position, with 80 publications, 564
citations, 7.05 ACPP, and it received 36 total link strength.
Among these countries, five countries have published
more than 50 articles. Germany and Brazil are at the
bottom of the list, with 23 and 24 publications,
respectively. It shows that the country Canada has received
the highest ACPP (18.14).
Academic cooperation between different countries or
research institutions guides disseminating knowledge and
educational exchange among scholars (Xiao, Wu, &
Wang, 2020). The academic cooperation relationship
among the top 50 countries of publications from 2001 to
2020 is shown in Figure 2. The nodes in the figure
represent different countries, the lines connecting the
nodes indicate international cooperation between
countries, and the thickness of the line represents the
closeness of association. The figure shows the
collaboration between the eight (8) clusters of countries,
but there are the two (2) most significant clusters in this
study. The first cluster (marked in red) shows the
collaboration between the Belgium, Finland, Denmark,
South Africa, New Zealand, Nigeria and Switzerland. The
second cluster (marked in green) shows the collaboration
between the Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece
and Spain.
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