Global Research on E-Resources: A Bibliometric Study of Global High-Cited Papers till 2024

Abstract

A bibliometric analysis of the global research on electronic resources is presented to identify its current research status, hotspots, trends and collaboration networks based on 854 high-cited documents retrieved from the Scopus database, using MS-Excel and VOSviewer. The study focused on publications from 75 countries, 631 institutions, and 1598 authors, and they were published in 136 journals. The USA (n=304), the U.K. (n=136), Spain (n=78) and Netherlands (n=47) were leading in publication output, citation impact and international cooperation, the University of Granada, Spain (n=23), University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA and University College London, UK (n=18 each), as key institutions; and D. Nicholas (n=16), H.R. Jamalli and M. Thelwell (n=14 each) as prominent authors. Research is predominantly focused on areas such as usage and users (158 papers), collection development (42 papers), information services & dissemination (31), accessibility & search ability (24 papers), and reading & readers (22 papers). Concludes that research on e-resources is increasingly becoming popular worldwide and stressed the need to continue exploring this important area. This study provides valuable insights for shaping future research directions in this field.