“…These topics included the strategies to combat terrorism (Aistrope, 2016), information extremism incidents (Brajawidagda et al, 2016), and the use of social media by terrorists, to expand their global influence (Weimann, 2016). Furthermore, the number of published documents improved to 84 in 2017, based on detecting and combating terrorism on social media platforms, such as Twitter (Debnath et al, 2017;Gialampoukidis et al, 2017a,b;Sraieb-Koepp, 2017). In 2018, these documents reached 103, the highest level among the 660 publications included in this study.…”