Publication trends in research on digital disaster management in libraries: a bibliometric study based on google scholar

Abstract

Bibliometric analysis is a type of analysis technique that includes the procedure of collecting, calculating, analyzing, and interpreting various types of literature. The objectives of this study were to identify the most relevant keywords when analyzing the papers' title and abstract content, to examine the annual publication of papers, to study the authorship pattern of papers, to discuss which countries produce the largest number of publications on digital disaster management in libraries, to identify citations received by the papers published. The research data from 2010 to 2022 was retrieved from the Google Scholar database using the "Publish or Perish" software program. 95 articles related to digital disaster management in the library were selected for data analysis. The keywords "Digital Disaster," "Disaster Management," and "Library" were used to select the most related articles. VOSviewer software and the Excel package were used to analyze and visualize the data in the study. The results show that the most relevant terms were disaster management (43), library (31), study (16), and digital disaster (16). The most articles were published in 2022, with a total of 16 (16.88%). Scholars working in this area collaborate to a greater extent. 52 papers (54.74%) have multiple authors, whereas 43 papers (45.26%) have only one author. The USA topped the list with the most articles 20 (21.05%). India was second with 12 (12.63%) articles and Indonesia was third with 11 (11.60%) articles. The most cited paper is Digital Disaster Management in Libraries in India, which recorded 29 citations during the study period. The digital disaster preparedness in libraries research topic is very valuable to future studies.