Quantitative Analysis of Scientific Publications Output on Virtual Library: A Scientometric Study

This study investigates the observations of research publications in the field of Virtual Library Global Level as reflected in the Web of Science (WoS) core collection database during 2018-2022. The data was interpreted by using Bibexcel and VoSviewer and tabulated using MS Excel. The results indicated that 2659 papers were published in the year of 2018 to 2022 and the loftiest number of publications, 707 (26.589%), was produced in 2022. Using colorful Scientometrics approaches, the study presents research published on Virtual Library as reflected in the Web of Science for Global and Indian output of citation analysis, keywords, H-index, Degree of Collaboration (DC), International Collaboration, and Institution based collaboration, ranking of core journals and so on.The degree of collaboration in the study of Deforestation Research is 0.92 which shows the collaboration of multiple authors. The USA is publishing 555 records from the years 2018 to 2022. The most productive and top-ranked journal is ‘Journal of Biomolecular Structure Dynamics’ with 123 records (4.625%).This paper discusses the concept of a digital library and how it helps in conserving manuscripts and what type of equipment or software are required in this work. This article also explores successful digital library projects set up in India and what is the future of digital libraries in the Indian scenario.