Publication trends in literature on eBooks: A scopus based bibliometric analysis
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2018
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Kolle, S. R.
Shettar, Iranna. M
Vijay Kumar, M.
Parameshwar, G. S.
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This study collected literature published during 2001-2016 from the Scopus database. Following keywords were used: “eBook*”, “e-Book*”, “electronic book*” or “online book*” in title or keyword or abstract with time span covering 2001 to 2016. The authors further restricted their search limit to subject category of social science, computer science and arts and humanities. A total of 2,965 documents were found from the search strategy, including 1,582 research articles. Articles were considered for the analysis using Microsoft Excel 2007. The bibliometric analysis was performed to analyze the document types, language, publication output, citations, authorship pattern, journals, prolific authors, productive countries and most frequently appeared top words/phrases from the title of the articles.
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Bibliometric Ananlysis, Citations, EBooks, Journals, Scopus, Department of Central Library
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Collection and Curation, Vol.37(3), pp.119-127.