A Scientometric Review of Automated Journalism: Analysis and Visualization

Abstract

In recent years, automated news has been more and more adopted by media organizations, which has aroused the attention and discussion in the industry and academia. However, few studies have attempted to map out the global research on automated journalism. To analyze the state of research evolution in automated journalism and its trends, this paper aims to analyze the year of publication, most participating countries, institutions, journals, and topics of the relevant papers collected from the Web of Science (WoS) database. The results shows that there are many countries actively participating in automated-journalism-related research, and the USA is the most productive country followed by Germany and Spain. Most of the active journals are in the field of journalism and communication. However, the visualization map of author’s keywords implies the nature of interdisciplinarity of the research, covering the main disciplines of journalism, computer science and automation.