Strategies for Keyword Selection for High-Impact Bibliometric Research Papers

Abstract

The academic publishing environment is becoming increasingly competitive as millions of scholarly articles are more thoughtful and influential. Bibliometric studies occupy a significant but minor part of this giant ecosystem, providing a quantitative understanding of research trends, productivity, and impacts.  For writers in this specialized area, choosing keywords is more than a formality; it is a decisive factor in whether a paper can be found and whether it will be correctly indexed, thus leading to future scholarly consequences. Within the scope of this report, the researcher examined the complexity behind keyword functionality and generated a structured framework for optimizing keyword collection in bibliometric research papers. This study takes the reader or the writer/researcher through a complicated journey to identify keywords in bibliometric analyses. It points to the contrast between natural language and the controlled vocabulary terms, stressing the outstanding contribution of the author as an expert in the domain. With the identification of the way keywords are used in academic records, an author may beneficially choose keywords that promote the visibility of the paper, thus ensuring that it reaches out to the most pertinent population and maximises the scholarly resources of the paper. The correct choice of these words is critical in ensuring that a piece of scholarly work will be retrieved as intended by the author and will be a brief representation of the key points of the research. The report will describe five fundamental types of keywords and the best practices of their practical usage to enable researchers to overcome the competitive landscape of publishing and ensure higher visibility of their valuable research. This painstaking process is essential for various authors and the larger academic ecosystem, contributing to a more connected and findable academic record.