Global trends in research related to social media in psychology: mapping and bibliometric analysis

Zyoud, Sa’ed H.; Sweileh, Waleed M.; Awang, Rahmat; Al-Jabi, Samah W.

ted terms related to personality psychology, such as "extraversion", "openness", or "romantic"; red coloured cluster represented terms related to experimental psychology, such as "empirical", "experiment", or "mechanism"; and yellow coloured cluster represented terms related to psychological risk factors, such as "risk" or "alcohol". Table 3 lists the 10 most cited among these papers. The 10 most cited articles were published in 4 journals [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] . The most-cited article, by Pempek et al., which investigated how much, why, and how college students use social networking sites, was published in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology in 2009 and has been cited 426 times [46] . The most recent manuscript in the top 10, by Lin and Lu, which investigated the factors affecting user's joining social networking sites, was published in 2011 and has been cited 241 times [44] . Table 4 shows the top 10 institutions based on the number of publications related to social media in the psychology field. It is worth noting that the University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked first in terms of the total publications (n = 39). Ohio State University (n = 25) was second to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the total number of publications, followed by Michigan State University (n = 23) and the University of Texas at Austin (n = 23). Figure 4 shows the collaboration between the most prolific institutions.