Egyptian Researchers' Benefit from Foreign intellectual production: Citation Analysis from periodicals Articles in Libraries and Information science

Abd El-Rahim, . Abd El-Rahim Mohamed

doi:10.21608/ijlis.2018.70329

Egyptian Researchers' Benefit from Foreign intellectual production: Citation Analysis from periodicals Articles in Libraries and Information science

Document Type : Original Article

Author

. Abd El-Rahim Mohamed Abd El-Rahim

قسم المکتبات جامعة سوهاج

10.21608/ijlis.2018.70329

Abstract

The study aims to citation analysis from the most prominent periodicals
articles in the domain of Libraries and Information in Egypt to identify to what
extent Egyptian researchers benefit from foreign intellectual production, which
includes recent and important information for researchers in the area of
Libraries and Information. Following bibliometric approach, the study has
revealed several findings, the most important of which are the following: size of
intellectual production, cited in the periodicals under investigation, is 6202
sources: that of Arab cited one is 3117 (50.26%) while that of foreign cited one is
3040 (49.02%); translated intellectual production is 45 sources (0.72%);
electronic sources rank first among the forms of the sources of foreign cited
intellectual production(47.93%), journal articles rank second (34.08%) followed by
other forms of sources; size of cited intellectual production, published in Arabic
(whether in Arabic or translated into it), is 3162 sources (50.98%) while that in
English is 3037 (48.97%); size of intellectual production published in French is
only 0.05%

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