Library Hi Tech: Volume 39 Issue 4

Editorial

A bibliometric analysis and science mapping of scientific publications of Alzahra University during 1986–2019

Currently, the evaluation of scientific performance of universities is one of the important indicators in various ranking systems. One way to evaluate the academic performance of…

A co-citation study of information security patents in the USPTO database

The goal of this study was to investigate the co-citation of information security patents in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database.

Output regularities of China's international collaboration research projects funded by NSFC

The purpose of this paper is to provide theoretical basis and data support for researchers to choose appropriate international partners, provide a basis for Chinese research…

The black crow of science and its impact: analyzing Sci-Hub use with Google Trends

In 2016, Bohannon published an article analyzing the download rate of the top ten countries using the illegal Sci-Hub website. Four years later, this study approaches the search…

Research output of Indian universities in sciences (2015–2019): a scientometric analysis

The present study aims to trace out the science research output of top Indian universities from 2015 to 2019, as reflected in the Web of Science (WOS) database.

Bibliometric analysis of ecopreneurship using VOSviewer and RStudio Bibliometrix, 1989–2019

This article offers a bibliometric analysis and explores the relationships among the documents on ecopreneurship by using relational techniques. The results highlight the…

Relationship between altmetric and bibliometric indicators across academic social sites in article-level: the case of Iranian researchers' “Top Papers” in clinical medicine

The study aimed to measure scientific and social impacts of Iranian researchers' “Top Papers” in clinical medicine using citation and altmetric indicators.

Topic analysis of academic disciplines based on prolific and authoritative researchers

The paper aims to explore whether topic analysis (identification of the core contents, trends and topic distribution in the target field) can be performed using a more low-cost…

Citation context-based topic models: discovering cited and citing topics from full text

Full text of a document is a rich source of information that can be used to provide meaningful topics. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to use citation context (CC…

The effect of interdisciplinary components' citation intensity on scientific impact

This study explores whether interdisciplinary components' citation intensity (ICCI) affects papers' scientific impact. In this study, the term “interdisciplinary components”…

A bibliometric approach to quantitatively assess current research trends in 5G security

Alongside the remarkable evolution of cellular communication to 5G networks, significant security and privacy challenges have risen which can affect the widespread adoption of…

Data replication techniques in the Internet of Things: a systematic literature review

In data grids, replication has been regarded as a crucial optimization strategy. Computing tasks are performed on IoT gateways at the cloud edges to obtain a prompt response. So…

Where are the sleeping beauties and princes in educational technology journals?

The purpose of this paper is to introduce an affective computing-based method of identifying sleeping beauties and their princes in five educational technology journals.

Why is self-service technology (SST) unpopular? Extending the IS success model

Self-service technology (SST) has become popular in many areas, but consumers from many countries still prefer human-provided services. Why is this so? The purpose of this paper…

Understanding knowledge sharing in virtual communities: a network perspective

As more and more people are beginning to take virtual communities (VC) as effective communication channels and the main places to get information and knowledge, understanding the…

Postnatal self-care experience of Truku women’s traditions and mainstream acculturation and reconstruction in Taiwan: A qualitative study

The preservation and disappearance of indigenous people’s traditional knowledge system, under mainstream social culture immersion and fusion, have presented a dynamic and changing…