The study of scientific map and thematic structure of social work

Abstract

Although scientific production alone cannot be regarded as a definite mark of comprehensive scientific growth and development, many R&D decisions today are in fact based on mapping and measuring the countries' scientific output. In view of its dynamic nature and its direct link to technology and scientific development, Social media has emerged as an important area of science and is offered as an academic discipline in universities up to the doctoral level. Today, the development of Social media and social policy plays a decisive role in the development of scientific knowledge, and the research activities in this field have progressed in parallel with the activities in other disciplines. The researchers in this field have published a substantial number of scholarly papers in credible scientific databases, which have over time led to the formation of its scientific structure. Mapping the scientific and social structure of this field presents a valuable source of information about the position of each of its subfields, signifying its overall power (Negahban & Mohammadyan, 2014).Map of science deals with the development and application of computational techniques to the visualization, analysis, and modeling of a broad range of scientific and technological activities as a whole. A science map provides an overview of the scientific landscape which AbstractThis study investigated the scientific map and thematic structure of Social media.It is a scientometrics research, using quantitative method and citation analysis. In order to draw a scientific map of the research literature in the field of Social media, the data were extracted from the Web of Science database within a specified time period. The retrieved records were formatted using WC10.exe conversion software and were then mapped using VOSviewer software. The findings revealed a growing trend in the number of articles published in the field of Social media, and this number increases on an annual basis. The most widely used subject areas in the field of Social media were identified. High-frequency keywords such as Social media, education, sociology, social justice, women studies, and psychiatry are the newly emerging and active concepts in this field. Regarding the widely used subject areas in the field of Social media, it was noted that the two areas of Social media and education are ranked first and second as the most frequently used terms. In this study, by the conceptual map found in the field of Social media, it can be concluded that the concepts are highly interconnected. Furthermore, by the interconnectivity and closeness of centrality measures of social concepts illustrated in the provided map, it can be argued that the highest values are attributed to the subject areas of Social media and education. K E Y W O R D Snetwork analysis, scientific map, scientific productions, social work 2003-2014. Leyesdorff, Carley, and Rafols (2012 initially analyzed the differences and similarities among the thematic categories of Web of Science in versions 4 and 5. Zhang et...