Muhamad Prabu Wibowo, School of Information Ph.D. candidate and teaching assistant, recently spoke on his work with bibliometrics at the University of Indonesia’s international webinar “The Role of Bibliometrics in Library and Information Research and Services.”

The webinar was held on September 21 and included over 550 participants from countries across the world including China, Malaysia, and Australia. During his presentation, Wibowo spoke on bibliometrics analysis and its application in the library and information science research and professions. Bibliometrics is the application of mathematical and statistical methods to media. This, and the overall theme of the webinar, are closely related to Wibowo’s research and interests as his study is focused on research data management, data repository, academic library, and open health data. He shared more about his presentation, saying, “At this event, I spoke on bibliometrics from the perspective of researchers. I presented how to harvest the bibliographic data and analytical tools in bibliometrics.”

When asked about the importance of the topic, he stated, “Bibliometrics can be applied to many things, from doing research and understanding the current research trends, to knowing the specific key authors in a specific field.” He explained that bibliometrics can be utilized in the recruitment of scholars to an institution, to understand author’s productivity, as well as to understand clusters of scholars in specific fields. He went on to say, “I hope that bibliometrics can be widely used more often.”