Research Productivity of Global Facebook Research during 2012-2015: A Bibliometric Appraisal (original) (raw)

Publication trends in Facebook: A scientometric study

The aim of this research is to conduct a bibliometric study and evaluate the publications related to Facebook. The data were retrieved from the database of Web of Science. " Facebook " was used as the keyword to conduct the search, and all publications were identified by the following criteria: topic and title. Publications from 2005 to 2013 were taken into consideration in this study, and a total of 4714 Facebook-related publications were found. The annual number of publications was increased from 1 in 2005 to 1823 in 2013. There were seven main document types in Facebook-related publications and articles were mostly used among all document types. The United States was found to be the most productive country and English was the most frequently used language among all publications. Moreover, Computers in Human Behavior was the main distribution channel and engineering, business and economics, and education were the top three most popular research areas.

Evolution Trends of Facebook Marketing in Digital Economics Growth: A Bibliometric Analysis

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 2021

Facebook, a form of digital marketing tool acts as a valuable element to reach out to the people or potential communities which aids in generating millions of revenues for businesses. Facebook Marketing has become one of the famous online marketing tools besides Google Advertisement. Many businesses ranging from Small Medium Enterprises (SME) to large scale corporations rely on Facebook Marketing because the results yielded are extensively and impeccably lucrative for these businesses. This study aims to provide an overview of literature on Facebook Marketing for the years ranging between 2006 and 2020by using bibliometric analysis of research productivity viewed through Scopus database.The analysis captured the most influential document and source types during this period. It also captured the most significant countries who contributed to the publications, the most productive authors and the most noticeable institutions involved with the related documents. The main method used was ...

A Bibliometric Review of Academic Social Networking Sites (ASNSs) in Scholarly Communication: A Scientific Mapping based on Scopus Database

International Journal of Information Science and Management, 2023

This study aimed to investigate the current state of published literature on Academic Social Networking Sites (ASNSs) in scholarly communication using bibliometric techniques. Social Networking Sites have revolutionized social interaction and scholarly communication by making it easier for researchers to collaborate and share their work. Researchers used selected keywords to gather data from Scopus. Fourteen years from 2007 to 2020 were considered for the analysis of research publications. Additionally, this research employed a Biblioshiny to provide a graphical representation of bibliometric indicators. the VOSviewer, CorTex, and Citespace software packages were employed to evaluate the keyword analysis and explore the research theme of social networking sites in research communication. A total of 751 publications were retrieved from 381 journals. In terms of publication, positive growth was seen. In scholarly communication, the United States is the most productive country in SNSs research. Regarding institutional affiliation, Wuhan University in China is the most prolific. In addition, it outlined the "5 Ps" for implementing ASNSs. Hopefully, the information provided by this bibliometric analysis of scholarly communication on social networking sites will be helpful to scholars in the future and contribute to the growth of knowledge in this area.

A Review of Facebook Research in the Social Sciences

Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2012

With over 800 million active users, Facebook is changing the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another and share information. A rapidly growing body of research has accompanied the meteoric rise of Facebook as social scientists assess the impact of Facebook on social life. In addition, researchers have recognized the utility of Facebook as a novel tool to observe behavior in a naturalistic setting, test hypotheses, and recruit participants. However, research on Facebook emanates from a wide variety of disciplines, with results being published in a broad range of journals and conference proceedings, making it difficult to keep track of various findings. And because Facebook is a relatively recent phenomenon, uncertainty still exists about the most effective ways to do Facebook research. To address these issues, the authors conducted a comprehensive literature search, identifying 412 relevant articles, which were sorted into 5 categories: descriptive analysis of users, ...

Research in the spotlight on social web: Analyzing the top 100 Altmetric articles of 2015

2016

The availability of research on social web is an important factor to determine its societal impact. The inability of traditional citation based metrics to provide a complete picture of web based scholarly content has given rise to alternative or to better say complementary way of measuring the impact of research, “Altmetrics”. The phenomenon of altmetrics has received global attention for its role to share research and allows visualization of important and interesting papers from a specific research area and time period. The current study attempts to analyze the articles (Top 100) that have caught the public attention in 2015 as revealed by the Altmetric.com. The paper explores the disciplinary nature, contributing source, publishing body, authorship and collaboration pattern of the articles. It also spotlights the Institutional and geographical distribution of the articles along with the tools where articles were shared and discussed. The study is first of its kind to analyze the a...