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Growth and Development of Publications on Cloud Computing: a Scientometric Study


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1 MIT Campus, Chennai., India
2 Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidayala College of Edu., Coimbatore., India
3 Central Library, Bharathidasan University, Trichy., India
     

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The present study examines the growth and development of publication out put in the field of "Cloud Computing". Cloud Computing is an emerging technology which provides a lot of benefits to research and development activities especially in the field of Library and Information Science. In order to carry out the research, the related data were extracted from "Web of Science" database. The major objective of the study is to find out the number of publications related to "Cloud Computing" which are indexed in "Web of Science" during 2001-2010 only. The Scientometric analysis was applied to investigate and fulfill the objectives. It is found that 510 records related to Cloud Computing in "Web of Science' were appeared during the periods. It is found that the author "Buyya.R" and the country "USA" have produced the majority of records. Further, the study is also recommended that the teachers, research scholars, scientists should involve in the research activities related to "Cloud Computing" to increase the productivity of literature on "Cloud Computing".

Keywords

Cloud Computing, Scientometrics, Web of Science
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Authors

K.S. Sivakumaren
MIT Campus, Chennai., India
S. Swaminathan
Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidayala College of Edu., Coimbatore., India
G. Karthikeyan
Central Library, Bharathidasan University, Trichy., India

Abstract


The present study examines the growth and development of publication out put in the field of "Cloud Computing". Cloud Computing is an emerging technology which provides a lot of benefits to research and development activities especially in the field of Library and Information Science. In order to carry out the research, the related data were extracted from "Web of Science" database. The major objective of the study is to find out the number of publications related to "Cloud Computing" which are indexed in "Web of Science" during 2001-2010 only. The Scientometric analysis was applied to investigate and fulfill the objectives. It is found that 510 records related to Cloud Computing in "Web of Science' were appeared during the periods. It is found that the author "Buyya.R" and the country "USA" have produced the majority of records. Further, the study is also recommended that the teachers, research scholars, scientists should involve in the research activities related to "Cloud Computing" to increase the productivity of literature on "Cloud Computing".

Keywords


Cloud Computing, Scientometrics, Web of Science

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