A bibliometric analysis of publications on information literacy in the Web of Science database

The aim of this study is to examine the articles on "computer literacy", "digital literacy", "media literacy", "health literacy", "scientific literacy", "information skills" and "lifelong learning" within the framework of "information literacy" indexed in the Web of Science database by bibliometric analysis method and to interpret them using various tables and mapping techniques. In this study, articles indexed in the WoS database on information literacy and seven other types of literacy were evaluated using bibliometric analysis and mapping techniques. In the WoS database, 4623 studies on information literacy, 92 on computer literacy, 1973 on digital literacy, 1880 on media literacy, 1781 on health literacy, 312 on scientific literacy, 93 on information skills and 944 on lifelong learning were identified. In this study, tables, co-occurrence maps and citation maps are presented according to the publication dates, countries, institutions, journals and authors of the articles. According to the number of citations in the studies on information literacy, the most influential author was Annemaree Lloyd, the most influential study was "Making sense of credibility on the web: Models for evaluating online information and recommendations for future research", the most influential journal "Journal of Academic Librarianship", the most influential institution "University of Granada", and the most influential country "United States of America". In order to contribute to the field of Information and Document Management, it is recommended to increase the number of studies with Turkish addresses indexed in WoS. In this thesis, it is aimed to contribute to the literature by examining different types of literacies together in bibliometric analysis.