INNOVATION IN DIGITAL SOCIAL NETWORKS: MAPPING PUBLICATIONS USING CO-CITATION ANALYSIS
Resumo
The present study aims to verify and analyze the leading academic publications related to innovation topics and digital social networks. The research methodology is the co-citation analysis followed by the development of a co-citation map that includes approaches, types of networks and levels of aggregation by these themes. Therefore, this study can promote a better understanding of how the authors studying innovation and digital social networks relate. As a result, 866 articles were identified between 2014 and 2018. Of these, 26,392 were references cited by the analyzed papers in the total of 480 journals. Three main clusters were identified with the references of the articles analyzed.