Electronic books: A scientometric assessment of global literature during 1993-2018

Abstract

A quantitative and qualitative description of global research on the topic of the ‘electronic books’ published during 1993-18 on select bibliometric indicator is provided. The study finds that ‘E-books’ is a fast growing topic of research within the domain of library and information science. Just 10 top most productive countries in the subject account for bulk of (73.25 %) the global research output in the literature. The USA leads the subject with 38.42 per cent global publications share whereas the rest of the 9 of top 10 top countries are distant cousins contributing 1.61 per cent to 8.74 per cent global publications share. United Kingdom registered the highest citation impact per paper and relative citation index (12.08 and 1.61). Bar-Ilan University, Israel was the most productive organisation and H. Falk was the most productive author. Publishing Research Quarterly is the most popular journal in e-books.