ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

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This study examines International Research Trends on Older Adults’ Digital Literacy to provide foundational insights for Public Library policy and expand Research themes in Library and Information Science (LIS). Based on 619 publications indexed in Web of Science, the basic descriptive analyses were conducted and the major research areas were examined. Text mining methods including word frequency analysis, network analysis and LDA topic modeling were applied. The Findings show a rapid expansion of research around 2020 and a continued upward trend, Mainly in North America and Europe within Health․Medical Informatics and Gerontology. The Major keywords were ‘Digital,’ ‘Health,’ ‘Technology,’ ‘Internet,’ ‘Social,’ ‘Improvement,’ ‘Education,’ ‘Telehealth’ and related terms. the 5 LDA Topics were evenly distributed, indicating that research on Older Adults’ Digital Literacy spans diverse Fields.

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