Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries: A Scientometric Analysis based on the Scopus Database

Abstract

In this digital era, libraries use many new technologies for their functions and to cater library users. This study aimed to analyze the publications on emerging technologies in academic libraries that were indexed in the SCOPUS database, Specifically, it was intended to find out the co-authorship pattern of those publications and the co-occurrence of keywords used by the researchers, to identify emerging technologies, and to find out future research directions. While applying appropriate Boolean operators to the search string and limiting this process to Title- Abstract-Keyword, 335 articles were found using the search terms ‘Academic Libraries’ OR ‘University Libraries’ AND ‘Emerging Technologies’. Only journal articles published in English between 2001 and 2024 were considered as inclusion criteria for this study, and publications in the production stage or the press were excluded. Finally, 269 articles were selected for this study. Microsoft Excel and VOSviewer software applications were used to analyse bibliographic data and data visualization on keywords’ co-authorship patterns and co-occurrence. The results revealed that the highest number of articles on emerging technologies in libraries were published ...