Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

An analytical look at the topic of digital libraries in the Web of Science database from the beginning until now

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Elham Naiich 1
Alireza Esfandiari Moghadam 2
Atefeh Zarei 3
1 Ph.D .Student Of Knowledge and Information Sciences, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamedan, Iran
2 Department of Knowledge and Information Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamedan, Iran
3 Associate Professor Department of Knowledge and Information Sciences, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamedan, Iran
10.22038/mjms.2024.81538.4695
Abstract
Introduction: A digital library is an online database that is a collection of texts, audio, images, digital documents or other digital media formats that can be accessed through the Internet.The purpose of this study is to analyze and evaluate the status of digital libraries in the Web of Science database.
Materials andMethods: In this study, the Web of Science database was used with scientometric method, bibliography and illustration. Until the end of 2023, keywords related to digital libraries are selected from the mesh (medical subject headings) and then by searching the Web of Science database, relevant global scientific publications are extracted in CSV format and using citation analysis techniques and Data analysis and visualization were done with the help of Excel and VOSviewer software.
Results: A total of 67,676 documents were indexed by world researchers about the subject area of digital library in this database. The average citation per document was 14.47 and the average h-index of the retrieved publications was 113. Most of the published documents were original articles in English. University of Michigan is the most cited most productive organization and Manjunath, bs is the most cited author. The most cooperation was with the researchers of the United States of America. The keyword of digital libraries had the most repetition among the used keywords.
Conclusion: The results of the study showed that at the international level, the process of publishing and citing related documents and articles is the subject of digital libraries.
Keywords
"Scientometrics"
"Bibliometrics"
"Digital libraries"
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Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences
Volume 67, Issue 3
May and June 2024
Pages 1069-1083