Affiliation:
1. Corporación Unificada Nacional de Educación Superior - CUN, Florencia, Colombia
2. Universidad de la Amazonía, Florencia, Colombia
3. Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia
Abstract
Introduction: Netnography is a research method that has emerged in response to the growing popularity of online communication and social networks.
Aim: To analyze communication patterns about netnography in the Scopus database.
Methods: A bibliometric study was conducted in the Scopus database on netnography. The analysis was conducted globally, by country, and by institution.
Results: A total of 11173 documents and 2213 authors were recovered. 35,1% of the documents were open access. The global field-weighted citation impact was 1,27. the most productive ones in the following order: United Kingdom (275 documents), United States (223 documents), Australia (165 documents), Brazil (100 documents), and France (83 documents).
Conclusions: The results show that netnography is an emerging area of research, with a wide geographic and thematic diversity, that has experienced steady growth in recent years and is being explored in a variety of contexts, from market research to the analysis of social dynamics online.
Publisher
Salud, Ciencia y Tecnologia
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