Ethics and Big Data - bibliometric analysis

Documents were collected on July 6th, 2020, by research on the web search engine Web of Science Core Collection. We searched for the topic: "Big Data" and "Ethic*" in all categories in the period, 1900-2020. In the WoS database, the fields mined to return results in a common 'topic search' are: • The title of the article, review, proceedings, book, etc. • The abstract – which is the work's summary containing the key points discussed, such as research question, methodology, discussion, and conclusion. This field is supplied by the author(s) of the paper. • The keywords and keywords plus fields: The keywords field is the one supplied by the author(s) and "tags" the main and sub-topics of the paper's content. The keywords plus field is an algorithm that provides expanded terms stemming from the record's cited references or bibliography. The total number of obtained documents was 892 (Table 1). Evaluation of data was conducted with the use of bibliometric software, HistCite, and VOSviewer.