YouTube citations in academic literatures: an exploratory analytical study. | ||||
| International Journal of Library and Information Sciences | ||||
| Article 3, Volume 2, Issue 3, July 2015, Page 59-85 PDF (1.39 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijlis.2015.64481 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Reham Ghoneem | ||||
| قسم المکتبات والمعومات جامعة المنوفية | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| There are many indications that assert the role of YouTube in the processes of official and informal communication between the scholars and academic persons. But the size and extent of using YouTube videos in the published academic researches is unknown and it was not a subject for a previous or similar study. Accordingly, this study endeavors to explore the size of citations with YouTube in the indexed scientific production Scopus database. The study observed (10257) studies of Scopus publishes cited at least one of You Tube videos in the review lists for eight years (2006 to 2013). The study showed that the sector of social sciences and human affairs is the highest percentage (48.07 %) among the different scientific sectors for citation with YouTube. Followed by the physical and natural sciences (38.3 %), then the health and medical sciences (10.1 %) and finally the life sciences (3.52 %). Most of the subjective sectors agreed that the scientific articles are the most publishers that inciting with YouTube (Percentage of Life Science is 58.8 %), percentage of health and medical sciences is (57.6 %) and percentage of social and human sciences is( 62.7 %), while the physical and natural sciences represented the conferences business as the most publishers of citations with YouTube (57.02% (. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| YouTube citations | ||||
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