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Manuscript received October 10, 2023; revised November 9, 2023; accepted December 9, 2023; published November 13, 2024
Abstract—Social media crowdsourcing has rapidly expanded
into multitudes of academic spheres. This article aims to create
an exhaustive bibliometric analysis of the expanding field of
social media crowdsourcing with the objective of mapping the
scholarly impact, thematic concentrations, and intellectual
structure of already existing literature and their fields of
research. A comprehensive analysis of the literature on
crowdsourcing and social media was conducted using advanced
statistical methodologies and tools such as Bibliometrix and
Biblioshiny. The publications closely related to these topics were
extracted from the Web of Science database, and co-author,
co-word, and co-citation analyses were performed. These
findings were then visualized graphically. The study highlights
the most impactful sources, articles and their authors as well as
the frequently used terms and their relatedness in order to
examine the past, current and future trends, with the ultimate
goal of finding unexplored or under-explored niches. The
examination of various factors revealed significant research
gaps in both the geographical and platform aspects. The
geographic analysis shed light on areas where there is a lack of
research, indicating potential for further exploration into the
utilization of social media in crowdsourcing in the countries
where it is yet to be explored. Additionally, the overreliance on
Twitter as a social media platform has in a way constrained
research opportunities and directions using local less popular,
but potentially more efficient for the gathering of information in
the respective field.
Keywords—bibliometric analysis, co-citation, crowdsourcing,
social media
Cite: Anna D. Kyosova, "Social Media Crowdsourcing a Co-Citation Bibliometric Analysis," International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 82-89, 2024.
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