Knowledge Mapping Analysis of Domestic Research on Big Data

Big data has been applied in various fields and it has become the most important impetus for the social development. In this paper, a review on some significant characteristics, emerging trends and intellectual bases has been studied based on Chinese document databases and software tools. The research draws the following conclusions. Firstly, even though there are many literatures in the area of big data, most of them are lack of important impacts internationally. Secondly, big data research develops steadily following research trends created in 2012–2014. Thirdly, for big data research of economy and management field, management, computer science, information science, communications and education are major literatures bases according to citation and co-citation footprint in scientific literature. Finally, both technical development and public policies affect research trends in China.