Bibliometric survey of IT Infrastructure Management to Avoid Failure Conditions

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present the bibliometric study of articles IT Infrastructure Management to Avoid Failure Conditions. As in today’s era of IT Industries, IT infrastructure management plays a crucial role. As a result, substantial research is going on to improve the reliability and availability of assets in IT infrastructure.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper analyzes and focuses the results acquired from articles accessed from Scopus for the past 15 years by examining in terms of frequently used keywords, the amount of work done in different countries and year-wise progression of the research, prolific authors, article citation frequencies, etc. Tools such as Gephi, Word Cloud, BiblioShiny, GPS visualizer, etc. are used for bibliometric analysis.

Findings

The study comes out with maximum publications of IT infrastructure management from conferences and journals. Anomaly detection, log analysis and learning system are the most frequently used keywords in the publications. Significant research has been done in the USA, followed by China under the area of Computer Science with an increase in publication since 2018.

Originality/value

This paper provides an accurate idea about the amount of work done in different countries and year-wise progression of the research. This bibliometric analysis will be useful for beginners to conduct a literature survey using appropriate literature available on the Scopus database.

Citation

Bhanage, D.A. and Pawar, A.V. (2021), "Bibliometric survey of IT Infrastructure Management to Avoid Failure Conditions", Information Discovery and Delivery, Vol. 49 No. 1, pp. 45-56. https://doi.org/10.1108/IDD-06-2020-0060