Exploring research trends in information technology in Pakistan: A meta-analysis

The objective of this study is to explore trends of research publications in Information Technology (IT) in Pakistan and to identify sectors where IT has been implemented and applied during twelve years (2000-2012). The present study has investigated different research methodologies adopted in IT in Country. The results show steady growth in number of publications in twelve years. The meta analysis results suggests that there were significant differences among different research methodologies adopted for research in IT in Pakistan. The mostly adopted research methods are experiments and simulations. This study also shows that applications of IT has mostly been found in the directly IT related sectors (system engineering, networking, software, telecommunication) and researchers in Pakistan have not utilized IT much for the indirectly IT related applications (Education, health, business, energy, agriculture).