A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH ON COMMUNICATION IN THE FIELD OF SURVEILLANCE: WEB OF SCIENCE (WOS)

Abstract

This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis in the field of surveillance and communication by analyzing 421 publications published between 2019 and 2024. The aim of the study is to determine the trends and orientations of the concept of surveillance in the scientific literature after Covid-19. To this end, the Web of Science (WoS) database was searched with the relevant keywords and 17,720 data were obtained. Among the data obtained, 421 articles published in English from the field of Communication were reached by applying the exclusion and inclusion criteria of the sample. The study was developed using Bibliometrix R-Tool and provided metadata from the WoS database. Publications, citations and information sources were analyzed, including top journals, top keywords, top cited and leading articles, top cited scholars, and top contributing institutions and countries. As a result, this study found that engineering, computer sciences and health are the most prominent fields related to surveillance, and that most articles are published in terms of publication type. In surveillance studies related to the field of communication, the words social media, privacy, Covid-19, China, algorithm and big data stand out; countries such as the USA, Australia, the UK, Canada and China are among the most productive countries; and with the increase in surveillance capacities, the protection of user privacy and security will become a critical issue.