The Intellectual Structure of Creative Industries Studies in 2003–2012: Invisible Taiwan

This study explores creative industries studies by analyzing 20,345 citations of 999 articles published in SCI and SSCI journal in web services area between 2003–2012, These amount database conducts citation and co-citation analysis to identify the most important publications, scholars, and research themes in the creative industries and then maps the intellectual structure of creative industries studies between 2003–2012. In this study the author adopted bibliometric [1], social network and tag clouds analysis techniques to investigate the intellectual pillars of the web services literature. The results of the mapping can help identify the research direction of creative industries and helps profile the invisible network of knowledge production in creative industries and provides important insights on current research paradigms of creative industries studies.