Arab researchers benefit from library periodicals and information disclosed in global databases Analytical study of reference citations | ||
| International Journal of Library and Information Sciences | ||
| Article 38, Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 303-339 PDF (1.52 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijlis.2021.61849.1061 | ||
| Author | ||
| Asmaa أحمد Soliman* | ||
| منطقة بنی سویف الأزهریة | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Scientific publishing is one of the main pillars in the progress and development of scientific research, and in strengthening the bonds of scientific communication between researchers. It works to publish and circulate the results of scientific research, which helps to advance the wheel of scientific research at an accelerated pace, which in turn leads to the progress of science, and scientific publishing is the cornerstone on which the scientific entity is determined, and the academic standing of the researcher and the university alike, especially After the huge boom in the field of scientific publishing, thanks to modern technologies that internationalized scientific publishing, after scientific journals were indexed in global citation databases; So the researcher who publishes in one of the periodicals exposed in these bases - such as the Clarivate analysis base or the Scopus base - and it has a high impact factor is considered a distinguished researcher with the distinction of his scientific level, and even raises the level of the university to which he belongs. In light of these great developments, and the competition between database service providers and publishers, tools have emerged that evaluate scientific journals in different ways and methods, the most famous of which was the emergence of citation databases, which provide them with the ability to evaluate scientific journals according to the number of reference citations for each journal. The current study attempts to measure the extent to which Arab researchers actually benefit in the field of libraries and information from the specialized periodicals disclosed in the international citation databases under study and analysis. The subject of the study and monitoring the characteristics and patterns of authorship in it, in addition to making the numerical, linguistic, qualitative and temporal distributions of reference citations in the articles of these journals under study. The study used the method of citation analysis in order to identify and analyze the different characteristics and distributions of the articles of the journals under study and the reference citations contained therein | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Scientific journals; global citation databases; citation analysis | ||
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