Arab Dissertations on the Web: A Scientometric Study

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Faculty of Arts - Cairo University

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The study aims to monitor and analyze the Arab academic dissertations on the Web. Accordingly, the study recognizes the map of the thematic tendencies, its linguistic distribution, and its development since the origin of web. It also reveals the temporal and geographical distribution in terms of universities and Arab countries. The study adopts the survey methodology, descriptive and analytical, to monitor and analyze the digital master's and doctoral theses available in full text on the Web in the Arab World until (2019) in Arabic and foreign languages in all fields of human knowledge. The sample includes all individuals of the study population that includes all Arab dissertations available in the official digital repositories and websites of Arab universities. In that, the study depends on observation and statistical methods to collect data in order to reach the required indicators. Furthermore, the study has found many results; Among them, the number of Arab academic institutions that provide research and review of bibliographic data and the full text of academic theses has reached 62 in terms of specific distributions as master’s theses hit (75%) while doctoral theses (25%). Social sciences ranked first in thematic specializations at 34%, and Arabic represented the largest percentage of Arabic dissertation languages at 53%. The period between 2015 and 2019 recorded the largest percentage of the number of dissertations available on the web. Algeria ranked first among the Arab countries in providing full texts of dissertations at 45%. Moreover.

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