TY - JOUR
T1 - Social media research, human behavior, and sustainable society
AU - Li, Quan
AU - Wei, Wenbo
AU - Xiong, Nian
AU - Feng, Daici
AU - Ye, Xinyue
AU - Jiang, Yongsheng
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This material is partially based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 1416509 and 1637242. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - A bibliometric analysis was conducted to review social media research from different perspectives during the period of 2008-2014 based on the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index database. Using a collection of 10,042 articles related to social media, the bibliometric analysis revealed some interesting patterns and trend of the scientific outputs, major journals, subject categories, spatial distribution, international collaboration, and temporal evolution in keywords usage in social media studies. The research on social media has been characterized by rapid growth and dynamic collaboration, with a rising number of publications and citation. Communication, Sociology, Public, Environment & Occupational Health, Business, and Multidisciplinary Psychology were the five most common categories. Computers in Human Behavior was the journal with the most social media publications, and Computers & Education ranked first according to the average citations. The two most productive countries were the U.S. and UK, delivering about half of the publications. The proportion of China's internationally collaborative publications was the highest. The University ofWisconsin, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University were three most productive institutions. Several keywords, such as "Facebook", "Twitter", "communication", "Social Networking Sites", "China", "climate change", "big data" and "social support" increasingly gained the popularity during the study period, indicating the research trends on human behavior and sustainability.
AB - A bibliometric analysis was conducted to review social media research from different perspectives during the period of 2008-2014 based on the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index database. Using a collection of 10,042 articles related to social media, the bibliometric analysis revealed some interesting patterns and trend of the scientific outputs, major journals, subject categories, spatial distribution, international collaboration, and temporal evolution in keywords usage in social media studies. The research on social media has been characterized by rapid growth and dynamic collaboration, with a rising number of publications and citation. Communication, Sociology, Public, Environment & Occupational Health, Business, and Multidisciplinary Psychology were the five most common categories. Computers in Human Behavior was the journal with the most social media publications, and Computers & Education ranked first according to the average citations. The two most productive countries were the U.S. and UK, delivering about half of the publications. The proportion of China's internationally collaborative publications was the highest. The University ofWisconsin, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University were three most productive institutions. Several keywords, such as "Facebook", "Twitter", "communication", "Social Networking Sites", "China", "climate change", "big data" and "social support" increasingly gained the popularity during the study period, indicating the research trends on human behavior and sustainability.
KW - Bibliometric analysis
KW - Collaboration
KW - Human behavior
KW - Social media
KW - Sustainable society
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U2 - 10.3390/su9030384
DO - 10.3390/su9030384
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85014900917
VL - 9
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
SN - 2071-1050
IS - 3
M1 - 384
ER -