Abstract:

Nowadays it has become clear that cybersecurity must be an integral and indivisible part of technological progress and it must be integrated at the core of ICTs. Almost all states around the world show their cybersecurity commitment and the Eastern Europe countries, including the Republic of Moldova are no exception. Moldova ranked globally 73rd (out of 165 countries) in the 2017 Global Cybersecurity Index by ITU, ahead of six other countries in the region. Nevertheless, we believe that cybersecurity is not sufficiently addresses by the academic community at the national level. The field of bibliometrics studies publication patterns by using quantitative analysis and statistics. This article aims to explore the level of research in cybersecurity at the national level and compare it with Eastern Europe countries’ level, using bibliometric analysis of scientific publications, authored by researches from Moldova. The study is based on data from the national database (National Bibliometric Instrument) with over 68.000 research publications and 2 international databases – Scopus Elsevier and Web of Science.

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