Bibliometric analysis on the implementation digitization technologies in cultural heritage in Malaysia

Abstract

Malaysia is a rich country with significant tangible and diverse intangible cultural heritage assets. The cultural heritage information must be collected in order to transmit the information to future generations. In this digital era, knowledge transmission can be easily spread using digital platforms. Furthermore, the post-Covid-19 pandemic driven necessity of digital sharing platforms. However, the status of digital cultural heritage in Malaysia is unknown. Hence, this paper will be addressed the digitization of cultural heritage implementation in Malaysia based on the published research articles. The data extracted from the Web of Science and Scopus database has been analysed using bibliometric analysis. The search keywords related to the digitization of cultural heritage has extracted about 171 documents over 15 years of publication. This finding is significant to provide local researchers and related institutions with the potential of digital cultural heritage in a post-Covid-19 pandemic. The large potential of digital cultural heritage should motivate local researchers to increase the attention on digitization cultural heritage research area. Many potential applications which are benefited cultural heritage tourism, sustainability as well as contribution to the economy. The findings from this research indicate that the trend of digitization in the cultural heritage field needs to be strengthened.

Exploring the State of Research on Tourism Sustainability: A Bibliometric Analysis in the Post-COVID Era

“…Firstly, the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020 had a significant impact on global tourism and caused notable changes in the industry [1,17,18]. Secondly, most previous studies have focused on earlier years, resulting in a gap in the investigation of recent years [1,[12][13][14][19][20][21][22]. The present study aims to bridge this gap by examining recent developments in the field.…”

“…Similarly, Salleh and Bushroa (2022) [13] examined the current status of digitization technologies in the cultural heritage sectors of Malaysia. To conduct their analysis, they searched sources in WoS and Scopus and extracted 175 relevant studies.…”

“…The literature review of previous studies on tourism sustainability has revealed the complexity of the concept and the need for a comprehensive examination of the various dimensions of sustainability. Bibliometric analysis has been employed in several studies [1,[12][13][14] to structure knowledge and determine the fields in which research is concentrated. The use of various bibliometric indicators, such as co-citation, co-occurrence, and co-authority analysis have been utilized to summarize the bibliographic data.…”