This study aims create a bibliometrics profile of the dissertation of postgraduate program
Imam Bonjol State Islamic University. The dissertation consists of two doctoral programs
namely Islamic education and Islamic law. Bibliometrics studies related to characteristics
citation analysis, half life calculation and bibliometrics mapping of dissertation. This
research uses bibliometrics method with quantitative approach. As for the unit of analysis
is the whole dissertation of 67. Analysis of citation analyzed frequency and percentage
calculation and mapping is built using VosViewer software.The resultant, The citation
pattern of the most cited author in the dissertation of Islamic education with the four
highest levels is Abuddin Nata, Ramayulis, Ministry of Religious Affairs and Azyumardi
Azra. Next to Islamic law are Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Amir Syarifuddin, Mustafa al-Zuhaili and
Muhammad Abu Zahrah. The most cited literature type in book form in the dissertation of
Islamic Education reaches 88.15% and Islamic law 94.97%. Based on the pattern of the
literature language cited for the dissertation of Islamic education is still dominated by the
Indonesian language with 83%, then there is a significant difference with the citation of
the Islamic law dissertation where Indonesian language reaches 45% and Arabic language
reaches 52%. Related to the obsolescence of literature based on the living part of the age
of getting for the dissertation of Islamic education is 24 years and 32 years of Islamic law.
Based on the map descriptor can be explained trends of research topics from dissertation
of Islamic education, more research topics on curriculum development research, madrasah
management model including college. Clusters of topics related to the thoughts of Muslim
scholars and Islamic educational leaders. The next cluster is the implementation of
management in the madrasah. The research topic trends contained in the dissertation of
Islamic law programs, namely renewal, jurisprudence, and customary law related to
marriage include inheritance.
Keywords: bibliometrics mapping, citation analysis, literature obsolescence, dissertation.