Research Trends of Middle East Countries in Library and Information Science

A Scientometric Study

Abstract

The study assessed research trends in Middle-East countries from Library & Information Science perspective. The required data have been retrieved from the Scopus database for ten years, from 2012 to 2021. The study covered seventeen Middle-East countries, and findings reveal that the major contributions of research documents have grown in the latest years. Most research documents belong to the “journal article” category; Iran has topped in terms of research contributions and citation share. Most research documents belong to "journal article" forms of research documents, and "Library Philosophy and Practice" was the top source journal for LIS research. Keyword co-occurrence and co-authorship networks are analyzed from different perspectives for the desired result.