A Scientometric Analysis of the Literature on the Topic “Academic Social Networks”

In the past few decades, scientific communication has become widespread through academic social networks (ASNs). The purpose of this article is to consider ASNs both as a research tool and an object study in publications. scientometric analysis literature on was carried out. set consisted 1,216 records retrieved from Web Science (WoS) database. included documents where were objects or those only mentioned bibliographic data source for systematic reviews meta-analyses (predominantly medicine) experimental repository. It found that started appear WoS after 2005. USA, University Wolverhampton (United Kingdom), M. Thelwall are country, organization, author leading number set. journals published presented by following subject areas: Computer Science; Librarianship; Mechanical Engineering; Engineering Technology. Four out first ten highly cited devoted altmetrics ASNs. authors used document co-citation via free analytical software CiteSpace discovered fronts. when publications rise, scholars began discuss community recommendation, professional indexing/folksonomy, cold-start problem. Later, became main researches last statement confirmed co-word CiteSpace. shown most frequent keywords studied altmetrics, impact, citation.