The scientific literature surrounding the pioneering tool, Chat GPT, is vast and rapidly growing; however, the scope of research areas remains limited. The aim of the study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis to identify publications related to Chat GPT. Using the search terms ‘Chat GPT’ and ‘Chat GPT’, all publications related to Chat GPT from the Web of Science database were extracted. A descriptive analysis of 4177 publications from January 2021 to August 2024 was conducted by focusing on publication trends, influential authors, and research themes. A total of 4177 Chat GPT-related publications were published in 1697 different sources. The analysis shows that the majority of research concentrated in the fields of health sciences and applied sciences, with significant contributions from the United States, China, and Singapore. Notably, the most productive journal is the
CUREUS Journal of Medical Science
, while collaboration between authors is mainly found in developed countries. The study highlights key trends in Chat GPT–related publications, with the literature most frequently focusing on the fields of health sciences and applied sciences, while social sciences are less represented. This indicates a need for broader exploration of Chat GPT’s impact across various disciplines to fully understand its potential and implications.
M. A. Arık, Ayşen Yalman, Tuba Livberber et al.· Journal of information scien...· 0 citations
Local media research has long been pulled between two demands: the normative expectation that local journalism sustains democratic life, and the structural reality of a digitally reconfigured media environment in which the conditions for that work are eroding. This study examines how that tension has shaped the development of the field through a bibliometric analysis of 1,088 publications indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) core collection between 1977 and 2024. Drawing on temporal trends, citation patterns, co-authorship networks, and keyword co-occurrences, the analysis traces both the quantitative expansion and the thematic reorientation of the literature. Two turning points stand out: a 1990s shift toward political participation and community engagement, and a post-2012 turn toward digital transformation, platform dependency, and the integration of social media into local news ecosystems. Geographic concentration in the USA, Spain, Australia, and England, alongside the marginal but growing visibility of Latin American and Asian scholarship, indicates that the field’s intellectual map is shaped not only by the substance of local media but by uneven structures of academic visibility. These patterns suggest that local media research has functioned less as a geographically defined subfield than as a theoretical space in which communication scholarship negotiates the tension between journalism’s democratic ideals and the structural pressures of an increasingly platformized media environment. The corpus is limited to publications indexed in the WoS core collection, classified under communication, and retrieved through terms appearing in article titles. Just over half of the corpus (552 of 1,088 records) is indexed in the social sciences citation index and almost two-fifths (420) in the emerging sources citation index, which points to a field that is consolidating but still only partially represented in the most established indexes. The article therefore treats the bibliometric record as a visible, indexed part of local media scholarship rather than the whole field and interprets its development through the relationship between democratic expectations, structural media change, and uneven scholarly visibility.
Murad Karaduman, Muhammet Erdem Duru, M. A. Arık et al.· Online Journal of Communicat...· 0 citations
Digital capitalism is often described either as a clean break with the past or as a continuation of older markets. This article takes a third position: digital capitalism is a reorganisation of capitalist accumulation around platforms, data, attention and digital labour, not a departure from capitalism’s basic logic. The study uses a critical narrative review approach, drawing on Marxian value theory and recent work on platforms, datafication and surveillance. It is anchored by a curated set of publicly reported indicators from institutional and market sources, used as context rather than as a causal test. These show a platform environment that reaches most of humanity, highly concentrated advertising and cloud markets, platform labour as a global phenomenon, and a supposedly weightless economy resting on dense physical infrastructure. The article traces four contradictions: the commodification of unpaid user activity, the material basis of immaterial production, the concentration of market power, and the gap between participation and algorithmic control. The contribution is conceptual. It shows that media business models usually treated as separate, including advertising, subscriptions, creator monetisation, in-game spending and platform commissions, share one logic: user activity is captured as attention, measured as data and converted into revenue. New media therefore function as economic infrastructures for value extraction.
Murad Karaduman, M. A. Arık, Sibel Karaduman· Journalism and Media· 0 citations
