A bibliometric research of economic study in world and Malaysia perspective based on web of science core collection

Abstract

Bibliometric is a method that includes statistical analysis of published articles and citations. This paper presents an outline of the highly significant detect in the Web of Science under the Economics filed. This article investigates 50 top and most cited articles in the background and ranks the 50 top universities by the total of papers published. This research examines highly relevance journals, the provisional extension and the countries with the highest publications. It similarly expands this analysis to the Malaysia situation investigating the top and most cited articles, the top universities and the temporary expansion. This investigation is established only findings found on the Web of Science with a goal of introducing a summary of the study of Economics. Some exceptions and features might be found in the results. The finding allows for an overall image of the more important studies in economics. This data is extremely appropriate in demand to detect the top tendencies in economic field. This study expects further expansion to this method by examining another specific case in the Economics field. Furthermore, this study will also remark other countries such as developed and developing economics and journals in the study and expand this method to other scientific classifications.