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Research and Trends in the Field of Social Media from 2012 to 2016: A Content Analysis of Studies in Selected Journals

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: This paper aims at making a trend analysis of 1142 studies in the field of social media that were published in 12 SSCI journals from 2012 to 2016. Citation and content analyses were used to investigate the trends. Among the 4391 articles published in these journals, 1142 articles were identified as being related to the topic of social media. In the analysis, first, these articles were crossanalyzed by published years, journal, research topic, and citation count. Next, these articles on different sub-topics were analyzed according to their research settings, participants, research design types, and research methods.

Source: Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico

DOI: 10.5209/esmp.63713

Authors: Uğur Bakan, Turgay Han

Institutions: Izmir Kâtip Çelebi University, Ordu University

Language: English

Topic: scientometrics and bibliometrics research

Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2944499806

FWCI: 0.167

Cites: 84

Cited by: 5

Related to: 10