Mapping the emerging field of cloud computing: Insights from a visualization analysis

Along with the research on the cloud computing with its applications is deep going, the business perspective of cloud computing is emerging as the frontiers and hotspots in this field. This paper is aimed at mapping the research in this field by means of a visualization analysis approach based on the citation and co-citation network. With the aid of the software CiteSpace II and the literature data embodied in the ISI Web of Science database, the visualization analysis about the research in this discipline is conducted by identifying the most essential research papers, representative authors and typical research outcomes on the basis of the clustering methods about the 427 papers and 9208 nodes, and the important subjects and regions are detected, together with the recent research stream is mapped with the vivid visualization, on purpose for providing valuable references to enhance the comprehension by the scholars in this area.