SHANGHAI VISION ›› 2024, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (2): 50-57.

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International Research Trends on the Impact of Advertising on Children: A Knowledge Graph Analysis Based on Web of Science (2006-2023)

ZHANG Ruizhi, JIANG Li   

  • Online:2024-02-20 Published:2024-09-27

Abstract:

Children are in a stage of rapid physiological and psychological development, and advertisement has a significant impact on this sensitive group.This paper presented a visual analysis of 323 papers from Web of Science core databases from 2006 to 2023. From 2016 to 2021, the academic vitality of research on the impact of advertising on children has been significantly enhanced. Over the past 18 years, a clear network of cooperation has been formed among authors, countries, and institutions. Universities are the core force in this field of research. The research trends in this field are divided into three stages. The research hotspots include four aspects: children's advertising literacy and advertising susceptibility, unhealthy advertising promoting children's unhealthy consumption, implanted advertising hindering children's advertising recognition ability, and children's brand attachment to food advertising. In future research, advertisement will be more integrated with social media, data tracking, and artificial intelligence, and the forms of advertisement's impact on children will also be more diverse and covert.

Key words: advertising, children, knowledge graph, advertising literacy, advertising susceptibility