How to conduct a bibliometric analysis using R Packages: a comprehensive guidelines / Muhammad Fakruhayat Ab Rashid

• Main Author: Ab Rashid, Muhammad Fakruhayat
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Hotel & Tourism Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA 2023
• Subjects: Library Science. Information Science
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/87654/1/87654.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/87654/; https://www.jthca.org/

Bibliometric analysis is a common and rigorous technique for analyzing and evaluating vast quantities of scientific data. This research aims to provide bibliometric methodological guidelines by providing step-bystep instructions for doing bibliometric analysis. Biblioshiny is the shiny application for bibliometrix that employs an R package for bibliometric research processes. For bibliometric analysis, researchers have utilized “hajj pilgrims” as a topic of example study. Hajj pilgrims are one of the most rapidly expanding study topics globally. A textual query on Scopus database using the term “hajj pilgrims” was performed retrieving 236 scholarly documents from 2000 to 2022. In the current analysis, the researcher came to the conclusion that the number of annual scientific productions in Scopus has significantly highest publications in global trends in 2019 with 29 documents (12.29%). The most relevant authors is Rashid H with highest publication of 33 (14%) documents. In addition, the most popular journals in hajj pilgrims research are Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease with 18 (7.63%) documents published. The country of Australia has the highest contribution of scientific articles production with 508 frequency.