Drawing and Analyzing the Mapping Outputs of the Information Society Domain through the Cooccurrence of the Vocabulary in the Citation Databases of Web of Science and ISC

It aims to draw and analyze the Mapping Outputs of the Information Society Domain through the Co-occurrence of the Vocabulary in the Citation Databases of Web of Science during 2001-2018 and ISC during 1991-2018.

This study is a syntactic analysis of words which is one of the scientific techniques.

The thematic areas of the Information Society, Internet and the digital gap between the Web of Science database and information society, Employment, and the World Summit on the ISC database had the highest share of production. The growth rate of the information society domain in the Web of Science was 4%. In the ISC, the growth rate was 67% during 1991 to 2015 and from 2005 to 2018 the negative growth rate was 23%. The clusters of the information society included trust, digital gap, globalization, information policy, information society, technology, politics, education, copyright, and intellectual property. Internet and technology have the highest link in the three centrality measures and the highest rate in the proximity and middle measures at the Web of Science. The results show that the network of information society domain has a continuous structure.

According to the results of this study, scientific policy making in the field of information society can be aided. By identifying research gaps in the field of information society domestically and in relation to related issues abroad, information science professionals can work to address these gaps.