International cloud computing literature: A scientometric analysis for 2004–13

Abstract

The paper examines 21397 global publications in cloud computing research, as covered in Scopus database during 2004–13. The annual average growth rate is 96.77%. The global cloud computing research output comes from several countries, of which the top 15 most productive accounts for 90.07% share of the global output. The largest share of output (24.12% and 21.96%) came from China and USA, followed by Germany, India, UK, Taiwan, Australia, Italy, Japan, etc. Austria registered highest share (49.83%) of international collaborative papers among the top 15 countries in cloud computing during 2004–13, Computer science contributed the largest share (79.06%) during 2004–13, followed by engineering (21.20%), mathematics (15.47%), social sciences (4.79%), etc. The top 25 organizations and 20 authors contributed 16.16% and 3.87% share to the global output during 2004–13. Conference proceedings (62.92%) and journals (22.05%) contributed the largest share to global output during 2004–13. The top 20 journals contributed 21.81% share to its total journal output during 2004–13. Only 71 publications (out of total global publications) have registered 100 or more citations since their publication till June 2014 registering an citation impact per paper of 216.68 during 2004–13.