The Analysis of Publication Trends on Nomophobia: a 13-Year Bibliometric Review

Triantoro Safaria, Yusti Probowati, Soerjantini Rahayu

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In the past 10 years, nomophobia has attracted the attention of researchers and been recognized as a modern mental health issue, requiring further exploration. However, an analysis of research trends and publications related to this topic has not been found in the Scopus database search. The aim of this study was to conduct a bibliometric analysis to uncover trends and scientific output related to nomophobia. Publication search was conducted using the Scopus database. A total of 304 documents within the timeframe of 2010 to June 2023 were analyzed using Vosviewer. Computer in Human Behavior (15) emerged as the journal with the highest number of publications on nomophobia. Turkey (59) was the country with the highest research output on nomophobia. The scientific landscape related to nomophobia, as revealed through author keyword co-occurrence analysis in the co-occurrence map, indicated the presence of five clusters. A detailed review of these clusters is described in this article.


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bibliometric analysis, publication trend, science mapping, Vosviewer.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26555/intl%20con.v3i1.13665

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