Bibliometric analysis is a quantitative method for analyzing bibliographic data in articles/journals. This analysis is usually used to investigate references to scientific articles cited in a journal, to map the scientific fields of a journal, and to classify scientific articles according to a research field.

This method can be used in the fields of sociology, humanities, communication, marketing, and other social groups. The approach used in bibliometric analysis is a citation analysis approach to see 1 article cited by 1 other article, and a co-citation analysis approach to find 2 or more articles cited by 1 article.

It can be concluded that Bibliometrics is a science that examines authorship using mathematical and statistical analysis. With this knowledge we will know things about authorship, one of which is the productivity of the author. An author can be judged as productive or not by looking at the number of works he has written in a certain period of time, whether they are his own work without the need for other writers, or the result of collaboration between writers.

Benefits of Bibliometric Analysis

According to Ishak (2005), some of the benefits of bibliometrics in the library are as follows:

1. Knowing core magazines in various disciplines

2. Knowing the direction and trend of science in various disciplines

3. Estimating whether or not the secondary literature is complete

4. Know the subjects or fields of the discipline

5. Knowing authorship

6. Predicting the direction of scientific development in the past and the future

7. Manage the incoming flow of information and communication

8. Review the obsolescence and dissemination of scientific literature

9. Forecast the productivity of publishers of authors, organizations, countries or all disciplines.

Types of bibliometric analysis

Here are some common bibliometric measures:

ΓÇó Number of citations: the number of times the research output appears in reference lists of other documents (articles, books, reviews, conference proceedings, etc.). Found in: Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science.

ΓÇó H-Index: designed to measure author productivity and impact. This is the number of publications by the author (h) that have h or more citations. Found in: Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science.

ΓÇó Field-weighted citation impact: ratio of citations received relative to expected world average for subject area, type of publication and year of publication. This can be applied to research outputs or groups of research outputs. Found on SciVal.

ΓÇó Output in top percentile: the amount or percentage of research output in the most cited publications in the world, UK or a given country. Found on Scopus and SciVal.

ΓÇó Journal Impact Factor: based on the average number of citations received per paper published in that journal in the previous two years. Found in Journal Citation Reports.

ΓÇó CiteScore: the average number of citations received in a calendar year across all items published in that journal over the next three years. Found on Scopus

ΓÇó SCImago Journal Rating: gives higher scores to citations from more prestigious journals. Found on Scopus

ΓÇó Scopus SNIP: ratio of the number of journal citations per paper and potential citations in the subject area. Scopus SNIP normalizes citation rate subject differences. Found on Scopus.

(Adapted from Metrics Toolkit licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 license.)

Bibliometric Software

Some of the uses of software in conducting bibliometric analysis include:

1. Vosviewer

2. HistCit,

3. BibExcel,

4. Tax,

5. Sci2,

6. Cytoscape

7. Gephy

Some software related to Bibliometrics, namely:

1. Scopus (scopus.com)

Actually, this is not software, but rather a kind of information system. Or more accurately referred to as an indexer.

Scopus, with a certain mechanism indexes various journals. Of course using the method and there are conditions. The index results are processed, then after being cooked, then eaten and served. This Scopus data is not free, but must be redeemed in dollars. The information contains performance journals, articles, countries, researchers. Includes networking info and more.

2. ScimagoJR (scimagojr.com)

Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) retrieves data from Scopus, then processes it again. Processed numbers are used to rank journals. At Scimago, the term Q, aka Quartile, is known. There are Q1,2,3,4. This means that the journal ranking is divided by 4. The lowest quarter, the quarter above it, the quarter above it again, and the top quarter.

3. PoP (https://harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish)

Publish or Perish (PoP). This term is well known: rise or die. But this PoP is also the name of a software. PoP can retrieve data from Google Scholar (google scholar) and display and store it.

Source: (Adapted from Metrics Toolkit licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 license.)

Guide to Using Vosviewer In carrying out Bibliometric (Systematic Literature) analysis, you can see the PDF files and videos at the following links: 

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