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RBU Journal of library & Information Science, V. 23, 2021
Conclusions
This paper aimed to map the literature on ILS through a
bibliometric analysis. Based on 1749 articles retrieved
from the WoS, this bibliometric study provided an
overview of the research in ILS and identified some
significant points in the research throughout the
investigation period. 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. A
total of 83 countries in the data collected have been
published on ILS over the years. The topmost publishing
countries were the USA, England, and China. The
collaboration trend was analyzed through the overlay
visualization of the global collaboration network. In
general, it was identified that the countries that published
the most in this field of research were also the ones that
most collaborate internationally. Moreover, it was
observed that the most recent countries in this area tended
to be more dependent on these collaborations. The
collaboration between the eight (8) clusters of countries,
but there are the two (2) most significant clusters in this
study. The first cluster shows the collaboration between
the Belgium, Finland, Denmark, South Africa, New
Zealand, Nigeria and Switzerland. Collaboration between
institutions from different countries is conducive to the
development and dissemination of knowledge; thus,
international cooperation in this research field is not
significant. About 2800 authors contributed to the ILS
research area according to the data collected. Surla D.,
Singh V., and Milosavljevic B. were observed to be
relevant authors in this field. The collaboration between
the twenty (20) clusters of authors, but there are the three
(3) most significant clusters in this study.
Electronic Library, Program-Electronic Library, and
Information Systems, and Library Hi Tech were the most
influential journals on ILS. The paper entitled "Effective
Mapping of Biomedical Text to the UMLS Metathesaurus:
The MetaMap Program" by Aronson A.R. published in
2001 in “Journal of the American Medical Informatics
Association," is on the most important paper in ILS
literature. It observed that Electronic Library, Program
Electronic Library & Information Systems, and Library Hi
Tech have strong relation with all keywords. Libraries,
Digital Libraries, Academic Libraries, Library
Automation, and Information Retrieval were the main
areas covered in the ILS literature. The study has
conducted a thematic map to put the themes and
subthemes on the graph and divides them into four parts
(emerging themes, basic themes, highly developed and
isolated themes, motor themes). Basic or transversal
themes are Library Management, Libraries, and Digital
Libraries; Electronics Journals is emerging themes;
Management and Library Automation are under motor
themes; highly developed but isolated themes of ILS
literature are topics related to Internet and Knowledge
Management.
In this article, an overview has been given of the ILSrelated
research topics and domains to which bibliometric
analysis and mapping methods have to date been applied.
It maps the key areas of this research field like the most
productive countries, institutions, authors, journals,
research categories, subject categories hotspots, and future
research directions. It also enables the visualization of
countries, institutions, and authors' collaborations in the
ILS field for partnership opportunities. The study
represents the keywords picked by the authors within this
research domain of ILS, which will assess the future
researcher to understand the key terms used by the ILS
researcher. These results are helpful for researchers to
identify primary sources of publication for relevant
information, thereby helping them improve their research
direction and keep up with the research ILS.
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