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A VIEW OF THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITALIZATION - AN INSIGHT FROM SCIENTIFIC DATABASES
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Since early times the civilization used to record and store their information about accumulated knowledge, everyday life necessities and other important things. Starting with clay tablets, stones and paper as a more advanced technology followed. Since that moment this trend made its way through centuries until nowadays, with new technological capabilities resulting in the form of digitalization. The paper discusses nuances of the terms, such as digitization, digitalization and digital transformation in scientific literature. The study is backed by discussion about digitalization's popularity, its impact and importance in our society as an irreversible process. The report provides a general insight into the motivation of researchers to conduct research on digitalization in various scientific fields. A historical overview of digitalization phenomena continues in two most popular databases (SCOPUS, Web of Science) insight, which is accompanied by statistical data about the evolving popularity of digitalization terms. Statistical methods were used to analyse data from different angles, including years, countries, languages and science sections, where digitalization terms are the central motive of research. Since first being mentioned in 1922 and a century later, in 2023, digitization terms have grown dramatically in popularity in scientific databases. In the Scopus database, the number of digitalization terms was less than 1000 by 2003, with the next doubling in volume occurring 9 years later in 2012. The next doubling took less than 5 years and it happened in 2017, and again the next one only two years later - in 2019. And already in 2023, it exceeded 21,000, which is a 1929% increase compared with 2003, which shows a genuine interest in the importance of the research into the given topic in modern scientific thought.
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