Analysis of top-cited articles on Webometrics and Scientometrics: a quantitative approach

Book Title: Changing Landscape of LIS Education and Research

The study examined the features of the top 30 cited articles on webometrics and scientometrics from 2013 to 2020. It focused on the various aspects of the cited articles, including publishing models, top-cited authors, journals and countries, collaboration patterns and thematic topics based on author keywords. The study revealed that the Journal of Informatics received the highest number of citations with 2667, collaborative researches with three authored publications are dominant and most of the subscription-based journals were cited by the authors. The study is significant for understanding the trends and patterns in developing a field and decision-making. It is an attempt to assist the researchers in finding the current trends with the analysis of the co-occurrence of terms based on the article title so that researchers can select an area to build future research.