Trends, Influential Authors and Emerging Themes in Intelligent Personal Assistants: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Purpose- This study aims to analyse the existing work done in the area of intelligent personal assistants using comprehensive bibliometric analysis and suggest directions for future research in this domain.
 Design/approach/methodology- A systematic procedure, step by step was carried out for this analysis. After using a predefined search string, we were left with 317 articles published in reputed journals in the database of Scopus. To understand this domain's current state, execution of bibliographic coupling and keyword analysis was done and future directions were suggested.
 Findings- We used the VOSviewer for analysing and visualising data. The results of this study show the trends of publication in the field of Intelligent Personal Assistants along with the most contributing countries, authors, and journals. The authors of the United States and the United Kingdom were observed to have the highest number of collaborations. Seven clusters were identified after using bibliographic analysis. At last, this study suggested a future road map by keyword analysis in the field of Intelligent Personal Assistants.
 Originality/value- The interest of researchers has increased in the field of Intelligent personal assistants over the past decades. There is a large volume of existing research in this field, still this literature is insufficient for providing complete knowledge of Intelligent Personal Assistants.