A Scientometric Analysis of Twenty Years Trends in Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Research

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to determine a scientometric analysis of twenty years of trends in Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) research. Papers published on 'Bring Your Own Device' or 'BYOD' topics were extracted and analyzed using the Web of Science database. VOSViewer software was used to identify and visualize key trends, influential authors, and journals. The 281 filtered documents were selected based on three main criteria which are (i) Topics on ‘Bring Your Own Device’ or ‘BYOD’, (ii) Type of documents on ‘Article’, and (iii) Year Published within 2000 to 2020. We conducted several types of analyses on the body of research using VOSViewer which are (i) Co-authorship analysis, (ii) Co-occurrence analysis, (iii) Citation analysis, and (iv) Co-citation analysis. The main contribution and motivation for this study is in the form of a conceptual framework of types of BYOD based on user orientation was proposed to guide possible future research in Information Technology or interdisciplinary research in Behavioral Science and support the UN Sustainable Development Goals agenda. The four major keyword clusters concerning user-oriented cluster main themes are (i) consumer-oriented, (ii) organization-oriented, (iii) students-oriented, and (iv) mobile users-oriented.