Theses supervised by Prof. Shaaban Abdel Aziz Khalifa: A Bibliometric Study

Document Type : Original Article

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قسم المکتبات جامعة دمياط

Abstract

The present study seeks to collect the scientific theses supervised by
Prof. Shaaban Abdel Aziz Khalifa in order to identify the numerical and qualitative
features of them, and identify the features of the networks of scientific supervision
of the professor. A bibliographic and bibliometric approach was used. The study
used the Egyptian Universities Libraries Catalog in order to collect theses, the
data collected during the period from 15/8/2019 to 20/8/2019.
The results of the study showed that there are 269 theses supervised by
the professor. The percentage of female was 59% while the percentage of male
was 41%. The theses supervised by the professor were approved from 12
Egyptian universities, Cairo University came first with 25% followed by Tanta
University, Menoufia and Banha with 15%, 14% and 10% respectively.
The first academic theses approved for the professor was in 1986 from
Cairo University, the period of time 2013 - 2015 witnessed the largest number of
theses supervised by the professor, which amounted to 21%. The number of
researchers supervised by the professor reached 215 researchers, 52% of them
received the master's degree only, while 25% obtained the master's and doctoral
degrees, while the percentage of researchers who obtained the doctoral degree
only under the supervision of the professor 23%. The percentage of researchers
coming from the Arab world was 12% of the total number of researchers
supervised by the professor.
This percentage belongs to eight Arab countries, led by Syria and Libya.
Bilateral supervision is the dominant pattern of 73%, while the individual
supervision pattern constituted only 27%. The scientific supervision network of
the professor consisted of 36 co-supervisors, led by Prof. Tharwat Youssef ElGhalban, Tanta University, followed by Prof. Hasnaa Mahmoud Mahgoub,
Menoufia University. Information sources came in the top of the libraries and
information science axes by 35%, information institutions came in the second
place with 22%, followed by information technology by 20%, followed by
information operations and information services by 12% and 11% respectively


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