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Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volume  8, Issue 3 (Suppl), Sept - Dec 2014, Pages 381-389
 

Review Article

Growth and Development of Literature in the field of Web 2.0: A Bibliometric Study

Sabitri Majhi, Bulu Maharana, Karna Singh

*Lecturer ,**Reader & Head,***M. Phil Scholar, PG Dept. of Library & Information Science, Sambalpur University, Jyoti Vihar - 768019, Odisha, India.

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This paper uses SCOPUS as the citation data source, and uses ‘Web2.0’ as the key word to search the research papers related to Web2.0 during the period of 2004- 2012 . A total of 1651 citation were retrieved having key word web2.0" in the title of the document. All citations are then exported to MS-Excel sheet for analysis. Each citation was analyzed to ascertain the various bibliographical forms of the document like books, periodicals, conference proceedings, workshop, theses etc. Other bibliometric  aspects of study like authorship pattern, ranking of journals, chronological distribution, Authors Ranking, geographical scattering are studied. Results revealed that literature in the field of Web2.0 is growing continuously and US and UK are the most dominant contributors over other countries in publishing papers on web2.0. Further, the research found that ”journal articles” are primary medium of communication among the researchers in the field of Web2.0

Keywords: Web2.0; Bibliometric analysis; Literature growth; Scopus; Collaboration.


Corresponding Author : Sabitri Majhi