Journal
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Volume 130, Issue -, Pages 69-87Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.11.009
Keywords
Google Trends; Big data utilization; Big data application; Networks analysis; Author keyword; Science Journal Classification; Clustering
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- Research Program at Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
- KISTI Technology Commercialization Center
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This study seeks to analyze the trends in research studies in the past decade which have utilized Google Trends, a new source of big data, to examine how the scope of research has expanded. Our purpose is to conduct a comprehensive and objective research into how the public use of Big Data from web searches has affected research, and furthermore, to discuss the implications of Google Trends in terms of Big Data utilization and application. To this end, we conducted a network analysis on 657 research papers that used Google Trends. We also identified the important nodes of the networks and reviewed the research directions of representative papers. The study reveals that Google Trends is used to analyze various variables in a wide range of areas, including IT, communications, medicine, health, business and economics. In addition, this study shows that research using Google Trends has increased dramatically in the last decade, and in the process, the focus of research has shifted to forecasting changes, whereas in the past the focus had been on merely describing and diagnosing research trends, such as surveillance and monitoring. This study also demonstrates that in recent years, there has been an expansion in analysis in linkage with other social Big Data sources, as researchers attempt to overcome the limitations of using only search information. Our study will provide various insights for researchers who utilize Google Trends as well as researchers who rely on various other sources of Big Data in their efforts to compare research trends and identify new areas for research.
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