A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF CLOUD SECURITY RESEARCH

In current era, cloud services are playing a major role in data processing and data transmission services across the globe. As result, there has been a surge in data security risks which have repeatedly threatened organisations and national data grids. Through this paper we provide our research study on current articles using bibliometric analysis on cloud computing services. Bibliometrics involves the measurement of data that is not central to the text. The text does not necessarily need to be read as part of the analytical process. Instead, extrinsic measures such as keyword frequency, author affiliation, research areas and citations are measured. Our study used several strategies to source relevant publications. Firstly, we performed an automated database search using “cloud AND computing AND security” as the main search terms. We searched for inclusion of all 3 words in either the title, abstract or keywords of all documents. The analysis was conducted on the following criteria: impact journals, highly cited articles, research areas, productivity, keyword frequency, institutions and authors