Ho Huong Thi Ngoc, Luong Hai Thanh
School of Journalism and Communication, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei China.
School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
SN Soc Sci. 2022;2(1):4. doi: 10.1007/s43545-021-00305-4. Epub 2022 Jan 6.
Research on cybercrime victimization is relatively diversified; however, no bibliometric study has been found to introduce the panorama of this subject. The current study aims to address this research gap by performing a bibliometric analysis of 387 Social Science Citation Index articles relevant to cybercrime victimization from Web of Science database during the period of 2010-2020. The purpose of the article is to examine the research trend and distribution of publications by five main fields, including time, productive authors, prominent sources, active institutions, and leading countries/regions. Furthermore, this study aims to determine the global collaborations and current gaps in research of cybercrime victimization. Findings indicated the decidedly upward trend of publications in the given period. The USA and its authors and institutions were likely to connect widely and took a crucial position in research of cybercrime victimization. Cyberbullying was identified as the most concerned issue over the years and cyber interpersonal crimes had the large number of research comparing to cyber-dependent crimes. Future research is suggested to concern more about sample of the elder and collect data in different countries which are not only European countries or the USA. Cross-nation research in less popular continents in research map was recommended to be conducted more. This paper contributed an overview of scholarly status of cybercrime victimization through statistical evidence and visual findings; assisted researchers to optimize their own research direction; and supported authors and institutions to build strategies for research collaboration.
关于网络犯罪受害情况的研究相对多样；然而，尚未发现有文献计量学研究介绍该主题的全貌。本研究旨在通过对2010年至2020年期间从科学网数据库中选取的387篇与网络犯罪受害情况相关的社会科学引文索引文章进行文献计量分析，来填补这一研究空白。本文的目的是考察五个主要领域的研究趋势和出版物分布，包括时间、高产作者、著名来源、活跃机构以及主要国家/地区。此外，本研究旨在确定网络犯罪受害情况研究中的全球合作及当前存在的差距。研究结果表明，在给定时期内出版物数量呈明显上升趋势。美国及其作者和机构可能联系广泛，在网络犯罪受害情况研究中占据关键地位。网络欺凌被确定为多年来最受关注的问题，与网络依赖型犯罪相比，网络人际犯罪的研究数量较多。建议未来的研究更多关注老年人样本，并在不仅是欧洲国家或美国的不同国家收集数据。建议更多地在研究地图中不太热门的大陆进行跨国研究。本文通过统计证据和可视化结果，对网络犯罪受害情况的学术现状进行了概述；协助研究人员优化自己的研究方向；并支持作者和机构制定研究合作策略。
