SIXTEEN YEARS OF RESEARCH JOURNEY OF WEBOLOGY: BIBLIOMETRIC VISUALIZATION APPROACH

Abstract

Webology is prominent journal in the domain of information dissemination and communication process in general with various management aspects. The major purpose of the study is to present a bibliometric overview of the leading trend of the journal during 2006 to 2021. The present study uses the Scopus bibliographic database and retrieved total 393 publications and investigate publications growth, top prolific authors, top productive institutions, highly cited documents. Study also used visualization of similarities (VOS) viewer software and RStudio and generated graphical visualization for co-authorship-countries, co-citation of cited source titles, co-occurrence of keywords, trend topics, scientific thematic area map of Webology. The study findings indicate increasing growth of publications in last two years. India, Iran and Indonesia leading in contribution of scientific publications in the journal and four institutions after Iran and three institutions from India found most productive in terms of total publications. The document entitled “Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and its implications for libraries by Maness J M” received 206 citations and secured top position. The VOSViewer© findings are coherent with the outcomes of the tables. “Citation analysis” “social media,” “Iran,” “open access,” “internet,” and “bibliometric,” were frequently used keywords in the journal and received maximum link strength. Journal trending with multiple topics like “social media”, “bibliometric”, “data mining”, “learning”, “ontology”, “big data”, “covid-19”, “altmetric” and “security” observed as hot topics in Webology journal. The findings of the present study primarily useful for those who track the Webology journal, as well as those who are devoted to the research in the domain of information and knowledge management, data analytics and word wide web.