PART A 

Bibliometric analysis

1. Identify a (new) concept in your area of specialization or choose from this list. Once you make a choice consult the lecturer to have it recorded against your name. No two students should perform the bibliographic analysis on the same concept/topic.

2. Download bibliographic from Scopus, (use the access I have given you) and perform a bibliometric analysis of the data. The bibliometric analysis should include co-authorship analysis, keyword co-occurrence analysis, bibliographic coupling, and co-citation analysis. No two students should perform the bibliographic analysis on the same concept/topic.

3. From the bibliographic coupling analysis identify the major themes of research that have emerged in the development of research of the concept you chose. Also identify some theoretical gaps in the area.

4. Present a thorough write-up of the methodology used in the bibliometric analysis (for example, how did you source for the bibliographic data, what keywords did you use for the search, how many documents did the initial search yield, what were the inclusion and exclusion criteria used, etc)