A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW WITH
BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF DATA
CATALOG FROM PERIOD 1970 TO 2021
BOUFASSIL Asmae
Data science team and competitive intelligence (DSCI)
ENSAH / UAE
AL Hoceima , Morocco
boufassil@gmail.com
Abstract—The handling of a large amount of data to analyze
certain behaviors is reaching a great popularity in the period
1970-2021.This phenomenon has been called data catalog. The
goal of this study was to examine the scientific output on the
data catalog in the Scopus database. A bibliometric analysis
of a sample of 332 scientific documents was done. The rise
in publications and the arrangement of particular journals,
countries, authors, and keywords as references in the subject
matter stand out among the findings. Finally, explanations for
the study’s findings that might be possible are presented, along
with ideas for further investigation.
Index Terms—data catalog, bibliometric, systematic literature
review, co-occurrence, co-citation.
I. I NTRODUCTION
The term “data catalog” is generally understood to mean
centralized location for data management where data cat-
aloging and metadata management are combined. It does
not only provide information to data users to locate and
understand data, but also automates metadata management
makes it collaborative.
Several authors have attempted to define “data catalog” for
example Gartner describes the data catalog: “A data catalog
maintains an inventory of data assets through the discovery,
description, and organization of datasets. The catalog provides
context to enable data analysts, data scientists, data stewards,
and other data consumers to find and understand a relevant
dataset for the purpose of extracting business value.” In 2020,
Labadie et al. defined “Data catalog maintains an inventory of
data assets through the discovery, description, and organization
of datasets.”(Labadie et al. 2020).
Specifically, “Data catalogs as tools to centrally “collect,
create, and maintain metadata”, allowing for easier findability
and accessibility.”(Ehrlinger et al. 2021)
An effective analysis of data catalog helps to step up to those
Managing data in the age of big data, data lakes, and self-
service and for modern data driven businesses, data catalogs
are at the center of their data journey. Data catalogs greatly
contribute to the success of any data analysis process. Simply
put, just like we have a catalog in a library that helps readers
EL HADDADI Anass
Data science team and competitive intelligence (DSCI)
ENSAH / UAE
AL Hoceima , Morocco
anass.elhaddadi@gmail.com
find their favorite books, a data catalog provides an overview
of all business data.
As a result, it was proposed as an objective to analyze the
scientific output, understood as the published articles on data
catalog in the Scopus.
Consequently, the following research questions were iden-
tified:
QR1: What is the state of scientific production over time?
QR2: Which journals and countries concentrate the greatest
scientific production on Data catalog?
QR3. Which are the articles of greater impact in the area
of Data catalog?
QR4. What are the main lines of research in this field that
are derived from the keywords of scientific articles?
QR5: What are the key concepts that related to the research
field?
The remainder of this study is as structured as follows.
Section 2 describes the methodology. Section 3 presents the
bibliometric analysis and findings. Section 4 concludes with a
critical reflection.
II. M ATERIALS AND M ETHODS
A bibliometric analysis methodology is used in this study.
Following the guidelines and criteria of bibliometrics, keyword
for this study is “data catalog”, therefore, the scientific pro-
duction is collected in article format, from 1970 to 2021. The
data in this study was drawn from the database Elsevier (also
known as the scopus) 2004 core collection. This is a selective
index of good quality publications.
A. Systematic literature review
A literature review aims to collect and review the litera-
ture to identify potential research gaps and uncover knowl-
edge limitations (Tranfield et al., 2003). Structured literature
searches are typically accomplished through an iterative loop
of defining appropriate search terms, retrieving literature, and
completing the analysis (Saunders et al., 2009). Rowley and
Slack (2004) recommend a structured approach to finding
resources, designing mind maps to create literary reviews,
writing research, and creating bibliographies. In this study, we
used a systematic literature review approach (Tranfield et al.,
2003), and bibliometrics analysis, to conduct a comprehensive
assessment of the field with the aim of identifying the most
influential studies and authors, as well as current There are
research areas and insights. Give current research interests.
III. R ESULTATS
The publications per year are mostly concentrated between
1970 and 2021 of the articles published on data catalog.
Likewise, its origin in literature begins in 1970, although the
flow of publications begins in 2000(Table.1.). According to

B. Bibliometric analysis method

Bibliometrics provides systematic methods and tools to
analyse and quantify the dissemination and relationship of
scientific publications (Wallin 2005, De Bellis 2009, Cadez
2013, Sweileh et al.2017, Van Eck and Waltman 2017). This
helps new researchers, librarians, administrators and decision
makers gain a high-level view and foresight of all related
aspects.
Bibliometric analysis is a method for conducting literature
reviews that relates to published research’ statistical and quan-
titative data (Broadus 1987). Bibliometrics is ”more impartial
and trustworthy” than other methods of literature review (Aria
and Cuccurullo 2017). Bibliometrics reviews are ”systematic,
transparent, and reproducible” when properly carried out and
reported (Aria and Cuccurullo 2017). Initially, bibliometrics
was used by academics to analyze published studies based
on counts of publications and citations. With advancements
in bibliometric techniques, tools, and software, we employed
the open-source Bibliometrix package of R programming
language (Aria and Cuccurullo 2017). table 1, the Scopus database is most data for this resonance
we chose it for this study.
C. Methodology of bibliometric analysis In Fig 2, we present the chronological growth of data catalog
The purpose of literature review articles might be twofold: research for the study period 1970-2021. In the first period
(a) summarizing the existing literature on a topic by high- there were years without any records, but after 1989 there
lighting significant themes and issues and offering grounds for was a gradual increase.
further investigation (Seuring et al., 2005); and (b) comparing
any scientific literature to current knowledge and hypotheses
(Saunders et al., 2009). There exist different types of literature
review for exemple systematic literature review, meta-analysis,
bibliometric analysis etc. In this work, bibliometric analysis is
used.
Fig.1. illustrates the methodology adopted in this study.
 The clustering of sources through Bradford Law using the
Biblioshiny tool is displayed in fig. 3 for the output of the
information science research. It is evident that the JOURNAL
OF PHYSICS: CONFERENCE SERIES is the top pick among
readers.
Fig.4 depicts the analysis of citation versus country. The
USA has a prominent network citation compared to other
countries, followed by Netherlands, Germany, and United
Kingdom.

Fig.5 presents the top 50 source of publications, based on

the number of papers published in the research area. metadata
In Table.2, which shows the order of the countries sorted
is the predominant source of publication, as shown below, with
by several records published by the countries in the area of
46 publications for 1970-2021.
data catalog. the top 10 most productive countries in terms
of the number of publications, from Scopus are presented.
The USA tops the list with 33 publications, followed by
China, Germany, and United Kingdom with 18, 17, and 14
publications, respectively. The below table projects the top 10
country-wise research outputs in the sector of study. Italy is
positioning in 5th place of publishing articles related to data
catalog study.

In Fig.6, we present the time series growth terms associated

with the data catalog for the study period 1970-2021. There
is a gradual increase in terms, especially ”metadata.”

Fig.7 shows the co-concurrence of the author’s major key-
word used for the data catalog study for the period of study.
The below figure identifies the network of authors’ major
keywords used for the Information Science research.
Fig.8 clearly shows the topmost authors in the field of
research for this study, as reflected in the Scopus database.
NANA is a prominent author, having a good number of
publications and a citation in recent years.
Fig.9 depicts that co-citation versus reference for the pub-
lications done during the study period. Most of the references
occurred from early 1970s articles since the study is confined
with data catalog tools, Bradford Law, and other scientific
parameters. The below figure can identify the co-citation of
articles with the references.
The conceptual function By using Correspondence Analy-
sis (CA), Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), Metric
Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), and Clustering of a bipartite
network of terms extracted from keyword, title, or abstract
fields, Structure creates a conceptual structure map of a
scientific field as shown in fig.10.
L IMITATIONS OF THE RESEARCH
The data catalog is a new area of study, which is one of
the limitations of the current survey. The results cannot be
generalized because only one bibliographic database, Scopus,
was used. Lack of a bibliometric algorithm to support the
development of citations per paper over time is another draw-
back. As a result, older articles are cited more frequently than
more recent ones, which makes it difficult to accurately assess
the influence of recent publications. Additionally, the current
approach does not identify cross-citations or create author
clusters. As a starting step in additional study, the current
results can be seen as explanatory and indicative yet crude.
Present results, which are restricted to the educational setting,
are suggestive of research ”gaps” those researchers may have
to take into consideration in their research.
D ISCUSSION AND C ONCLUSION
This publication does a thorough bibliometric analysis in
”Data catalog.” The structures and development in this field
were uncovered with the aid of the bibliometric analysis.
The bibliometric analysis made use of Scopus, the most used
database. Due to the fact that Scopus indexes a variety of
sources, 332 publications are included. NA NA is the most pro-
ductive author globally, and is the most well-known researcher
in the subject of data catalog research . Both authors have
strong networks with numerous nations. metadata, information
management are the topics that receive the most attention in
data catalog. China and the USA are the most fruitful nations
according to bibliometrics . The bibliographic This paper’s
analysis provided the intrinsic structure of data catalog. This
research is crucial for the data catalog is a well-established
topic, and the research Community could look into the further
development of the the order of publications in this field.
visualization of data one of the most often used terms in
data catalog is presented. The most popular search terms are
Citation,Science mapping, network analysis, and co-citation.
Finally, a thorough discussion of the publication of authors
from other nations and India follows. The reader can better
understand the current trending areas by using the many sub-
sections that are used to categorize the overview of the pub-
lished work in data catalog with bibliometric. The bibliometric
study’s provision of the number of papers and citations is
the study’s shortcoming. Numbers clearly indicate quantity,
but citations do not indicate quality. Additionally, the study’s
bibliometric analysis included the Scopus database. There are
alternative sources though, Therefore additional investigation
using different indexing databases could be thought of as the
study’s potential future direction.
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