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Digital Communication and Language

Digital Communication and Language is a research topic within Human-Computer Interaction. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of emoticons and emojis on computer-mediated communication, social interaction, text messaging, language variation, and literacy skills. It investigates gender differences in online communication and the use of emoticons in workplace emails. The research also delves into the influence of emoticons on emotional expression, social attributions, and information processing.

  • Emoticons
  • Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Social Interaction
  • Text Messaging
  • Language Variation
  • Digital Communication
  • Emoji Usage
  • Literacy Skills
  • Gender Differences
  • Online Communication
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
19% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Digital Communication and Language

Which countries lead Digital Communication and Language research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (470 and 411 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 470 works
  2. 2 China 411 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 328 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 270 works
  5. 5 Brazil 221 works
  6. 6 Russia 213 works
  7. 7 Germany 173 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 161 works
  9. 9 Spain 159 works
  10. 10 India 136 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 18.5%China: 16.2%Indonesia: 12.9%Türkiye: 10.6%6 others listed: 41.8%19%largest
United States470 · 18.5%China411 · 16.2%Indonesia328 · 12.9%Türkiye270 · 10.6%6 others listed1,062 · 41.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Digital Communication and Language research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Digital Communication and Language research, followed by Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar and University of Maribor.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 23 works
  2. 2 Universitas Mahasaraswati DenpasarIndonesia 16 works
  3. 3 University of MariborSlovenia 15 works
  4. 4 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 13 works
  5. 5 University of AlicanteSpain 13 works
  6. 6 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 12 works
  7. 7 University of LjubljanaSlovenia 12 works
  8. 8 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 11 works
  9. 9 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 11 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Digital Communication and Language?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Digital Communication and Language include John T. Cacioppo.

  1. 1 John T. Cacioppo United States 168k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Digital Communication and Language?

The most cited paper in Digital Communication and Language is "The Psychological Meaning of Words: LIWC and Computerized Text Analysis Methods" (Yla Tausczik, James W. Pennebaker, 2009), with 5,900 citations. Next come "The Field behind the Screen: Using Netnography for Marketing Research in Online Communities" (3,941) and "Determining what individual SUS scores mean: adding an adjective rating scale" (3,082).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Psychological Meaning of Words: LIWC and Computerized Text Analysis Methods Yla Tausczik, James W. Pennebaker · Journal of Language and Social Psychology 8 Dec 2009 5,900
2 The Field behind the Screen: Using Netnography for Marketing Research in Online Communities Robert V. Kozinets · Journal of Marketing Research Feb 2002 3,941
3 Determining what individual SUS scores mean: adding an adjective rating scale Aaron W. Bangor, Philip T. Kortum, James T. Miller · Journal of Usability Studies archive May 2009 3,082
4 Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication Charles J. Forceville · Journal of Pragmatics Open access 4 Aug 2011 2,777
5 Popularity of Brand Posts on Brand Fan Pages: An Investigation of the Effects of Social Media Marketing Lisette de Vries, Sonja Gensler, Peter S. H. Leeflang · Journal of Interactive Marketing Open access Apr 2012 2,066
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Where is Digital Communication and Language research done?

The largest centres of Digital Communication and Language research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Ankara (Türkiye).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 76 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 65 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 50 works
  4. 4 AnkaraTürkiye 37 works
  5. 5 MedanIndonesia 34 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 33 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 32 works
  8. 8 DenpasarIndonesia 31 works
  9. 9 JakartaIndonesia 30 works
  10. 10 KyivUkraine 30 works
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Where is the best place to study Digital Communication and Language?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Radboud University Nijmegen and Universidad Complutense de Madrid score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 9.35%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…Radboud University N…Universidad Complute…University of Alicante
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 84.227.7%3.8×12 +88.3%
2Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 60.722.3%4.0×9 +40.5%
3Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 58.811.0%4.0×13 +14.2%
4University of AlicanteSpain 53.12.4%11.5×13 +144.6%
5University of MariborSlovenia 50.20.8%19.0×15 +181.7%
6Universitas Mahasaraswati DenpasarIndonesia 50.00.0%28.7×16 +467.6%
7University of HelsinkiFinland 42.012.2%3.8×10 -31.3%
8University of TorontoCanada 39.17.7%1.2×10 +23.5%
9Universidad de SevillaSpain 37.98.6%4.2×9 +41.9%
10Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 35.20.8%16.8×11 +176.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Digital Communication and Language, country by country

Is Digital Communication and Language research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Communication and Language.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Digital Communication and Language as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Digital Communication and Language over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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