The intellectual structure of game research
This article maps out the main areas of game research through an analysis of co-citation and keyword co-occurrence patterns in 24,128 game research documents between 1966 and 2016. The keyword analysis identifies 4 communities: Education/Culture, Technology, Effects and Medical. Co-citation analysis...
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| description | This article maps out the main areas of game research through an analysis of co-citation and keyword co-occurrence patterns in 24,128 game research documents between 1966 and 2016. The keyword analysis identifies 4 communities: Education/Culture, Technology, Effects and Medical. Co-citation analysis identifies 5 communities: Education, Humanities/Social Science, Computer Science, Communications, and Health. Burst analysis of keywords reveals when key research themes emerged across the period. Key findings are: the main division in game research is between Communications and Health on the one hand and Education, Humanities/Social Science and Computer Science on the other; design is an important bridge between different communities; and there exists a gap in research on the game industry. The research is a broad overview and future research that targets specific communities to tease out more specific patterns is recommended, as is research targeting non-English language sources. |
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| spelling | nottingham-519712020-05-04T19:37:08Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51971/ The intellectual structure of game research Martin, Paul This article maps out the main areas of game research through an analysis of co-citation and keyword co-occurrence patterns in 24,128 game research documents between 1966 and 2016. The keyword analysis identifies 4 communities: Education/Culture, Technology, Effects and Medical. Co-citation analysis identifies 5 communities: Education, Humanities/Social Science, Computer Science, Communications, and Health. Burst analysis of keywords reveals when key research themes emerged across the period. Key findings are: the main division in game research is between Communications and Health on the one hand and Education, Humanities/Social Science and Computer Science on the other; design is an important bridge between different communities; and there exists a gap in research on the game industry. The research is a broad overview and future research that targets specific communities to tease out more specific patterns is recommended, as is research targeting non-English language sources. Game Studies Foundation 2018-05-22 Article PeerReviewed Martin, Paul (2018) The intellectual structure of game research. Game Studies, 18 (1). ISSN 1604-7982 game research invisible colleges keyword analysis co-citation analysis bibliometrics http://gamestudies.org/1801/articles/paul_martin |
| spellingShingle | game research invisible colleges keyword analysis co-citation analysis bibliometrics Martin, Paul The intellectual structure of game research |
| title | The intellectual structure of game research |
| title_full | The intellectual structure of game research |
| title_fullStr | The intellectual structure of game research |
| title_full_unstemmed | The intellectual structure of game research |
| title_short | The intellectual structure of game research |
| title_sort | intellectual structure of game research |
| topic | game research invisible colleges keyword analysis co-citation analysis bibliometrics |
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