Abstract:
Scholarly documents are generated on daily basis in varied formats. Google
Scholar is one of the most popular open access web search engines that involves
metadata of massive volume of varied scholarly literature that is generated
autonomously and in high velocity. This means that Google Scholar data
should be considered from Big Data perspective. Despite a growing literature
on climate change in Egypt, there has never been a comprehensive survey of
the literature produced by Egyptian researchers in the field. The paper in hand
is intended to study and assess existing literature on climate change undertaken
by Egyptian researchers available at Google Scholar. For this purpose,
systematic mapping approach was utilized in this work. It was found that
there were 189 research papers undertaken by Egyptian researchers on various
climate change topics over a ten years period 2007-2017. Yet, about 33% of the
produced literature was found to have been published in less reputable publications.
Research papers undertaken by Egyptian researchers were found to be
on the increase during this period. It was also found that the majority of the
published research focused on specific topics such as agriculture and sea level
rise, while disregarding a number of vital topics in the case of Egypt such as
tourism, health and energy
