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A Holistic Evaluation Of Buddhism Literature: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Global Publications Related To Buddhism Between 1975 And 2017, Ghouse Modin Nabeesab Mamdapur, Engin Senel
A Holistic Evaluation Of Buddhism Literature: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Global Publications Related To Buddhism Between 1975 And 2017, Ghouse Modin Nabeesab Mamdapur, Engin Senel
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Although Buddhism is the fourth largest religion of the world with almost 500 million followers, to the best of our knowledge, academic literature lacks a bibliometric study investigating Buddhism documents. We used four databases provided by Web of Science; Thomson Reuters to extract the academic documents related to Buddhism and included all items published between 1975 and 2017. We generated info-maps and info-graphics showing distribution of world countries’ publication productivity and connections in bibliometric networks. A total of 25,267 articles were included and the most common document types were original articles, reviews and meeting reports (76.11, 19,38 and 3.84, respectively). …