Internet Addiction in the Web of Science Database: A Review of the Literature with Scientific Mapping Moreno Guerrero, Antonio José Gómez García, Gerardo López Belmonte, Jesús Rodríguez Jiménez, Carmen Scientific production Bibliometric analysis Scientific mapping Addiction Internet Web of Science To the researchers of the research group Análisis de la Realidad Educativa (AREA) (HUM-672). Research group by belonging to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Junta de Andalucía and based in the Department of Didactics and School Organization of the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of Granada. Information and communication technologies (ICT) is a major element of today’s society with great potential that can offer both advantages and disadvantages. Addiction to the Internet and social networks is a growing problem in all age groups. Education is the context in which to work and train in the correct use of these media. The objective of the study focuses on knowing the scientific production and the performance of the concepts “addiction” and “internet” (ADIN). A bibliometric methodology complemented with the scientific mapping technique was followed. Different processes related to the quantification, analysis, evaluation, and estimation of scientific documents were carried out. The literature was analyzed by specific programs such as SciMAT, Analyze Results, and Creation Citation Report. The unit of analysis was specified in 5644 scientific publications extracted from Web of Science (WoS), belonging to the period of years between 1996 and 2019. The results showed that the evolution in the study of the addiction to the Internet is constant and continuous, with articles in English being the most used means to present the information on the part of the investigators. In addition, the subject of study was based on time, given that the coincidence of key words between the periods analyzed was high. In conclusion, the importance of promoting healthy living habits that include responsible use of the Internet are discussed. 2020-06-22T12:05:51Z 2020-06-22T12:05:51Z 2020-04 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Moreno-Guerrero, A. J., Gómez-García, G., López-Belmonte, J., & Rodríguez-Jiménez, C. (2020). Internet addiction in the web of science database: a review of the literature with scientific mapping. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(8), 2753. [doi:10.3390/ijerph17082753] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/62614 10.3390/ijerph17082753 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI