Abstract
The paper examines world publications output on social media research (46354) published during 2001–2014. The publications data, sourced from Scopus database, averaged annual 14.61% growth. The paper profiles top 25 most productive organizations that accounted for 12.46% world share, and top 25 most productive authors that accounted for 2.34% world share on indicators such as average productivity, citations per paper, h-index, and share of international collaborative publications during 2001–2014. The distribution of world output by country of publication is highly skewed. The top 15 most productive countries account for bulk of the world output (82.40%). The USA has emerged as the world leader both in its world share and citations impact of social media research output. Blogs, among social media sites, accounted for the largest publication share 27.45%, followed by Facebook (16.75%), Twitter (15.86%), Wikipedia (10.58%), YouTube (7.24%), Flickr (3.94%), MySpace (1.73%), LinkedIn (1.21%), etc., during 2001–2014. Computer science accounted for the highest publications share (55.22%) of world publications output on social media, followed by social sciences (26.55%), engineering (13.52%), medicine (10.14%), business, management and accounting (8.72%), arts and humanities (5.95%), psychology (3.68%), etc., during 2001–2014. The top 30 most productive journals, which reported social media research during 2001–2014, accounted for 6.46% world share. A total of 266 were discovered as highly cited papers in social media research (0.57% world share), each was cited 100 or more times since publication till February 2015. Together these highly cited papers accounted 57462 citations, with an average of 216 citations per paper.
Highlights
Social media has invaded our lives, empowered people with new pervasive communication tools capable of creating big social impact
Citation window was limited to three publication years, to two publication years and to one publication year
Citations data were collected for total publication output during 2001–2014 from date of publications till the end February 2015
Summary
Social media has invaded our lives, empowered people with new pervasive communication tools capable of creating big social impact. Little by little social media has been widening facilities for communication with the rest of the world. Social media has become one of the most powerful media sources for news updates, online collaboration, networking, viral. Access this article online Quick Response Code: Website: www.jscires.org marketing, and entertainment. Social media has become a primary channel to engage, listen, and communicate with a variety of stakeholders from customers to employees to suppliers and competitors. The contemporary interest in social media within the academic, public, and business circles has been driven largely by the rise of social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Social media’ stance toward distributing data is relatively open, and it is this
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