Global affective computing research in the period 1997-2017: a bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Notable fallouts in marketing and financial market prediction have raised the interest by the scientific community and the business world in Affective Computing (AfC). Automatically recognizing and responding to a user's affective states, AfC shows a great potential to improve companies capabilities of customer relationship management. The aim of this study is to evaluate this filed of research during the last twenty years, identifying for one side its evolution, by the major publications, citations, journals, authors, productive countries, productive institutions, and collaboration patterns; and for another side, identifying its trends through the analysis of research hotspots, burst keywords and areas of research done so far. This bibliometric analysis is based on the science citation index expanded (SCI-E), from the Institute of Scientific Information Web-of-Science, which is now firmly established as an integral part of research evaluation methodology especially within the scientific and applied fields. The results show a significant 4.19 rate of growth in AfC, doubling the number of publications in 4.02 years time. This field of interest is paving the way for creativity and innovation, and provides opportunities for its greater development. The authors expect to contribute to the theory, supplying researchers with new tools and enabling practitioners to improve their marketing strategies, constantly interested in collecting and predicting the attitudes of the consumers toward their products, brands or services.

Measuring and Fostering Diversity in Affective Computing Research

“…According to Ho et al [31], the annual growth rate of published papers is 12.5%. Pestana et al [32] found that publications double every 4 years. Thus, Affective Computing is attracting more and more researchers every year which could potentially foster diversity in a natural way.…”

“…Diversity analyses of the Affective Computing research community are scarce. There are some recent bibliometric studies analysing the past two decades of publications in the field [30], [31], [32] but, rather than on community members, they focus on identifying major publications, leading journals, key research topics, and most productive authors, institutions and countries in terms of number of published papers. They present nevertheless interesting findings directly or indirectly related to diversity as follows.…”

Measuring and fostering diversity in Affective Computing research

“…According to Ho et al [26], the annual growth rate of published papers is 12.5%. Pestana et al [27] found that publications double every 4 years. Thus, Affective Computing is attracting more and more researchers every year which could potentially foster diversity in a natural way.…”

“…Diversity analyses of the Affective Computing research community are scarce. There are some recent bibliometric studies analysing the past two decades of publications in the field [25], [26], [27] but, rather than on community members, they focus on identifying major publications, leading journals, key research topics, and most productive authors, institutions and countries in terms of number of published papers. They present nevertheless interesting findings directly or indirectly related to diversity as follows.…”

How diverse is the ACII community? Analysing gender, geographical and business diversity of Affective Computing research

“…Some recent bibliometric studies have analyzed the past 20-25 years of publications in the field of Affective Computing, from 1995 to 2020 [2], [14], [15]. They all follow a similar methodology, searching for publications using the keyword "Affective Computing" in Web-of-Science (WoS), an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service.…”