A Topic-Based Bibliometric Review of Computers in Human Behavior: Contributors, Collaborations, and Research Topics

Xieling CHEN; Di ZOU; Haoran XIE; Gary CHENG

doi:10.3390/su13094859

A Topic-Based Bibliometric Review of Computers in Human Behavior: Contributors, Collaborations, and Research Topics

Xieling CHEN, Di ZOU^*, Haoran XIE, Gary CHENG

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Department of Computing and Decision Sciences

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Abstract

Computers in Human Behavior (CHB) is a well-established source with a wide range of audiences in the field of human interactions with computers and has been one of the most widely acknowledged and leading venues with significant scientific impact for more than 35 years. This review provides an overview of the status, trends, and particularly the thematic structure of the CHB by adopting bibliometrics and structural topic modeling on 5957 studies. Specifically, we analyzed the trend of publications, identified major institutions and countries/regions, detected scientific collaboration patterns, and uncovered important topics. Significant findings were presented. For example, the contribution of the USA and Open University of Netherlands was highlighted. Important research topics such as e-commerce, social interactions and behaviors, public opinion and social media, cyberbullying, online sexual issues, and game and gamification were identified. This review contributes to the CHB community by justifying the interest in human behavior issues concerning computer use and identifying future research lines on this topic.

Original language	English
Article number	4859
Number of pages	21
Journal	Sustainability
Volume	13
Issue number	9
Early online date	26 Apr 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094859
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2021

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Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Teaching Development Grant (102489) and HKIBS Research Program Grant Application (HCRG-201-002, 702024) of Lingnan University, Hong Kong, the One-off Special Fund from Central and Faculty Fund in Support of Research from 2019/20 to 2021/22 (MIT02/19-20), the Research Cluster Fund (RG 78/2019-2020R), the Interdisciplinary Research Scheme of the Dean’s Research Fund 2019-20 (FLASS/DRF/IDS-2) of The Education University of Hong Kong and “The APC was funded by the One-off Special Fund from Central and Faculty Fund in Support of Research from 2019/20 to 2021/22 (MIT02/19-20) of The Education University of Hong Kong”.

Keywords

Computers in Human Behavior
bibliometric analysis
structural topic modeling
research evolution
research topics

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