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Research visualization on cloud computing services in the field of information science and library science

Nusrat Ali (Department of Information Management, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur Pakistan, Bahawalpur, Pakistan and Department of Library, Government College Women University Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan)
Muhammad Naveed (Department of Information Management, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur Pakistan, Bahawalpur, Pakistan)
Shakeel Ahmad Khan (Department of Information Management, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur Pakistan, Bahawalpur, Pakistan)

Digital Library Perspectives

ISSN: 2059-5816

Article publication date: 11 June 2024

Issue publication date: 13 August 2024

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Abstract

Purpose

This bibliometric study is steered to compute the impact of literature published on cloud computing within the fields of information science and library science. The research has been conducted on concentrating the term “Cloud Computing” to search the literature published in both fields, i.e. information science and library science from the time span 2007 to August 2023. This study aims to investigate the top productive country, organizations and highly cited publications.

Design/methodology/approach

The period of the exploration was from 2007 to August 2023 for bibliometric analysis and data was collected from the ISI Web of Science. Total 401 documents were retrieved and analyzed to highlight the year-wise distribution of documents type, year-wise most cited articles, prominent journals of the subjects, productivity of organizations, impact of countries and cooccurrences of keywords. The results are grounded on the basis of documents types (articles, early access articles, proceeding papers, book review, editorial material, news items and reviews).

Findings

The findings reveal that the most productive year of publication on cloud computing services was 2013. The top productive source is “International Journal of Information Management.” The articles entitled “Assessing the determinants of cloud computing adoption: An analysis of the manufacturing and services sectors” found as the most cited article and the significant increase in citations is also noteworthy. The most productive organizations on the topic include “Islamic Azad University of Iran,” “University Cologne of Germany” and “University Nova Lisboa of Portugal.” The results confirmed that the USA dominates in the production of research on “Cloud Computing Services” and the most repeated keyword in the literature is cloud computing. The research articles are the most cited sources of research.

Originality/value

This bibliometric research is an original piece of work that has been conducted to measure the research production in the field of information science and library science during 2007−2023. This piece of work is valuable for those who want to study the literature on cloud computing in the area of information science and library science.

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Acknowledgements

It is acknowledged that this work is original one by the above mentioned authors and no funding has been obtained by any third party.

Citation

Ali, N., Naveed, M. and Khan, S.A. (2024), "Research visualization on cloud computing services in the field of information science and library science", Digital Library Perspectives, Vol. 40 No. 3, pp. 429-439. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-02-2024-0019

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2024, Emerald Publishing Limited

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