Growth of research publications on Social Media as reflected in Scopus: An overview

The concept of Social Media is top of the agenda for many business executives today. Decision
makers, as well as consultants try to identify ways in which firms can make profitable use of
applications such as Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter etc. Yet despite this
interest, this study has been made an attempt to know the growth documents on “Social Media”
as reflected in the Scopus. This study found that majority of the articles has published between
the years 2015-2018. It is observed from the study that 40.48% of the documents are related to
Social Sciences, Computer Science (22.29%) and Medicine (20.19%). The study found that
62.89% of the documents are published in the form of Article and Conference Papers (15.92%).
The finding of the study shows that the majority 95.78% of the documents have published in
English language. The result of the study shows that 35.21% of documents have been published
by USA and United Kingdom (10.72%). The author Liu, H has published 133 documents on
Social Media and he secured first rank.