A Bibliometric Analysis on Museum Exhibitions Research Trends

Year 2023, Issue: 31, 39 - 56, 09.06.2023

Fatma Sezin Doğruer

Abstract

Museums compose exhibitions in order to promote their objects and thus to serve to the humanity.
Although the museum collections have different qualities and quantities for each museum, organization of
the museums, the studies carried out for the exhibition and protection of the collections are similar. In the
recent times, the understanding of exhibiting in museums have changed with the modern technologies and
concepts. This study is the first bibliometric analysis that ensures statistical and extensive understanding
in the museum exhibitions literature, which was carried out on indexes in Web of Science (WoS) Core
Collection between 1975 and 2021. The study is expected to urge scholars to implement more studies
on museum exhibitions. The analysis grasped 3085 publications drafted by 199 determined and 197
anonymous authors from 75 countries, where art, arts humanities, history, architecture and computer
science are the main fields of the research. VOSviewer, which is an analysis application, was used while
bibliometric analysing and data visualizing. USA produced 19.32 % of the world’s publications on museum
exhibitions, which is the first country with the highest number of publications with 596 documents. The
most used keywords in this literature are museum, exhibition and museums.

Keywords

Museum, Exhibition, Display, Museology, Bibliometrics