The Literature Review of Internet Emoticon Research in China

Nowadays the frequent and prevalent employment of internet emoticon has attracted people's attention of it. This paper is to comb the developmental history of internet emoticon and endeavor to give some hints on its future research. In this review, 88 papers are collected from the database of China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI). A visualization analysis is made to quantify the research hot topics and frontier, key words, author and institution with the aid of CiteSpace III. In terms of cited literature and co-cited literature, CNKI metrological visualization analysis is employed to delve into the overall trends. The results reveal that internet emoticon research has been closely related to various domains and its interdisciplinary characteristics is not in full swing.

Nowadays the frequent and prevalent employment of internet emoticon has attracted people＇s attention of it. This paper is to comb the developmental history of internet emoticon and endeavor to give some hints on its future research. In this review, 88 papers are collected from the database of China National Knowledge Infrastructure（CNKI）. A visualization analysis is made to quantify the research hot topics and frontier, key words, author and institution with the aid of CiteSpace Ⅲ. In terms of cited literature and co-cited literature, CNKI metrological visualization analysis is employed to delve into the overall trends. The results reveal that internet emoticon research has been closely related to various domains and its interdisciplinary characteristics is not in full swing.