Journal of Modern Medical

Introduction
Information sharing plays an important role in the development of universities. In fact, it is a strategic investment that is done by academic libraries. Libraries for sharing information are like the driving force of countries’ development, and academic libraries should develop these services to provide more. Academic libraries are like the driving force of countries’ development. They should develop and increase information services. The dissemination of information provides basic materials for social growth and is an important factor in increasing the interaction of people with other nations. Examining different aspects of information sharing shows that one of the important issues in information sharing in libraries is that they face great challenges due to the multiplicity of information sources. The existence of sources such as E-journals, online databases, professional websites and other digital sources makes it more difficult for librarians to take care of the problems of people who are interested in reading books. This scientometric study aims to provide a scientific map of information sharing in academic libraries in the Web of Science database from 1990 to 2022.

Methods
This is a quantitative study using the scientometrics approach. The study population consists of all papers related to information sharing in the Web of Science database from 1990 to 2022. First, the search was performed in the Web of Science database with the keywords academic libraries, information sharing, college libraries, and university libraries, using the Boolean logical operators (OR, AND). After conducting the search, the details of all papers were extracted in CVS format. Then, the necessary statistical analyzes were performed in Excel software and VOS viewer. Publication process, core journals, authors, active countries, etc., in the field of information sharing in academic libraries were examined and a scientific map was provided.

Results
The initial search yielded 5487 records in information sharing and 1056 in information sharing of academic libraries. The first article was published in 1954. The most cited article was published in 2008 which had been cited about 1304 times and had 44 references. The number of papers had surged over 32 years and reached 70 papers in 2022. This growth in recent years is due to the recognition of the value and place of information sharing in academic libraries. Among 101 subject categories, the library and information science category was at the top rank with 614 records. The author Grafstein was among the most cited authors with one published paper and 135 citations. More than 2441 authors had written papers in information sharing. Research articles were the most prevalent cases in terms of the type of paper, while conference articles and review articles were the least prevalent cases. The institution with the highest number of published papers was the Chinese Academy of Sciences (n=42) with about 687 citations and 103 links. Out of 157 records in terms of publishers of papers related to information sharing in academic libraries, Emerald Publishing with 133 papers ranked first accounted for 14% of published papers. Elsevier and Springer were at the second and third places. The United States had the highest producer of papers in information sharing, most of which were research articles in English.

Conclusion
The number of papers related to information sharing of academic libraries in the Web of Science database has shown an upward trend, especially from 2010 onwards. This is consistent with the studies by Karimi and Heydania in 2019 (who showed a 67% increase) and Farhangi et al. In 2018. This study, by providing a scientific map of library information sharing in the Web of Science, can be helpful for researchers.

Ethical Considerations
Compliance with ethical guidelines
This paper was approved by the Ethic committee of Hamedan Branch of Islamic Azad University (Code: 172298292).

Funding
This paper is extrcted from PhD dissertation of Leila Goodarzi, approved by Department of Knowledge and Information Sciences, Hamedan Branch of Islamic Azad University.

Authors' contributions
All authors equally contributed to managing this re-search article. 

Conflicts of interest
The authors declared no conflict of interest.

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