The hot research topics and the research fronts in the field of web data mining(WDM) based on Web of Science

Web data mining is the integration of data mining technology and web, how to find useful information in the Web which is the world´s largest data of collection is becoming a hot spot of data mining research, this article choosing all the 763 documents´ citation as data sample of “web data mining(WDM)”, which was published in Web of Science (SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI) from 1986 to 2009, confirming the hot research topics and the research fronts by using word frequency analysis and detect key words that their term frequency changed notably, and drawing the knowledge mapping of them by using Citespace a information visualization software. Hoping it can benefit to the research of web data mining(WDM).