Co-citation and cluster analyses of extant literature on social networks

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Highlights：

• Over one billion people are currently using social media such as social websites.

• Only few studies have focused on examining the core factors of social networks.

• This study is based on information assembled from 2565 articles and 81,316 citations.

• Co-citation analysis and cluster analysis were applied to verify seven main.

摘要

•Over one billion people are currently using social media such as social websites.•Only few studies have focused on examining the core factors of social networks.•This study is based on information assembled from 2565 articles and 81,316 citations.•Co-citation analysis and cluster analysis were applied to verify seven main.

论文关键词：Social network,Document co-citation,Multidimensional scaling analysis,Cluster analysis

论文评审过程：Received 21 February 2016, Revised 29 December 2016, Accepted 19 April 2017, Available online 19 May 2017, Version of Record 19 May 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2017.04.007